diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7597781..d53af3e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-requests==0.7.5
+requests==2.20.0
 mimeparse==0.1.3
 python-dateutil==1.5
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 201db97..4b06615 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     license='MIT',
     url='https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups',
     packages=find_packages(),
-    install_requires=['distribute', 'requests==0.7.5',
+    install_requires=['distribute', 'requests==2.20.0',
                       'mimeparse==0.1.3', 'python-dateutil==1.5'],
     author='Steven Cummings',
     author_email='estebistec@gmail.com',