diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index fab48304c..0019f6c81 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 argparse
 prettytable
-requests<1.0
+requests>=0.8.8,<1.0
 simplejson