diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 02412ff..528ba90 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ scikit-image==0.13.0
 scikit-learn==0.18
 scipy==0.19.0
 scons==2.5.1
-Scrapy==1.4.0
+Scrapy==2.6.1
 seaborn==0.8.1
 service-identity==17.0.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1