diff --git a/simptext/requirements.txt b/simptext/requirements.txt
index 8da5ca6..736bbdf 100644
--- a/simptext/requirements.txt
+++ b/simptext/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ openpyxl==2.3.5
 Pattern==2.6
 pep8==1.7.0
 pyparsing==2.1.5
-requests==2.11.1
+requests==2.20.0
 rope==0.10.3
 scipy==0.18.0
 six==1.10.0