diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 99de505..c1f6783 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ isodate==0.5.1
 pyparsing==2.0.3
 rdflib==4.2.0
 rdflib-jsonld==0.3
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.20.0
 
 #for testing
 nose==1.3.7