diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6c57a12..72c96c4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ regex==2017.7.28
 requests==2.13.0
 scikit-learn==0.18.2
 scipy==0.19.1
-Scrapy==1.4.0
+Scrapy==1.8.1
 service-identity==17.0.0
 six==1.10.0
 sklearn==0.0