diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 46ec26491dc438bfca52142f363085e8105b2ca8..91780209631614baa993d350956537c79fde8ca1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ redis
 celery
 junos-eznc
 lxml
+requests
 
 pytest
 pytest-mock
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0df9fd0f8e29a02c536d99b6cdae6ccecca33f7e..cacec6f53c463e17d73d2a10471fa2a9f217daff 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ setup(
         'redis',
         'celery',
         'junos-eznc',
-        'lxml'
+        'lxml',
+        'requests'
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
 )