diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ec89dccd2..8d38c114b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ alembic
 SQLAlchemy
 av>=14.2.0
 comfy-kitchen>=0.2.7
+requests
 
 #non essential dependencies:
 kornia>=0.7.1