diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9c822f1..0df746b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PyDispatcher==2.0.5
 pyOpenSSL==17.2.0
 queuelib==1.4.2
 requests==2.18.4
-Scrapy==1.4.0
+Scrapy==1.8.1
 service-identity==17.0.0
 six==1.10.0
 Twisted==20.3.0