diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ca0dee4..c20f36f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-requests==2.9.1
+requests==2.20.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ec950c6..e535429 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def read_text_lines(fname):
     keywords=['Sentence Clustering', 'Topics Extraction',
               'Opinosis Summarization', 'Text Similarity'],
     install_requires=[
-        'requests==2.9.1'
+        'requests==2.20.0'
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
     entry_points={