diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 619746017..9331d1518 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ Pillow>=3.3.0
 pythainlp>=1.7.2
 python-dateutil>=2.5.3
 PyYAML>=3.11
-requests>=2.10.0
+requests>=2.20
 tinysegmenter==0.3  # TODO(codelucas): Investigate making this >=0.3
 tldextract>=2.0.1
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