diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e92d9df23..7f030492f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ setup(
         "beautifulsoup4>=4.3.2",
         "lxml>=3.3.0",
         "BeautifulSoup==3.2.1",  # django-compressor gets confused if we have lxml but not BS3 installed
+        "requests==2.2.1",
     ],
     zip_safe=False,
 )