diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 725da95..a567fa7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ nose==1.3.7
 # http requests made easy
 # License: Apache2
 # Upstream url: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.31.0
 
 # makes in memory caching easy
 # License: MIT