diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index cacef69..667d04c 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ queuelib==1.4.2
 requests==2.18.4
 scikit-learn==0.19.1
 scipy==1.0.1
-Scrapy==1.5.0
+Scrapy==2.6.1
 service-identity==17.0.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1
 six==1.11.0