diff --git a/mega_applications/flask_web_app/requirements.txt b/mega_applications/flask_web_app/requirements.txt
index dd37af3..b6a6ff8 100644
--- a/mega_applications/flask_web_app/requirements.txt
+++ b/mega_applications/flask_web_app/requirements.txt
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ requests-ftp==0.3.1
 rfc3986==0.4.1
 scandir==1.6
 scipy==0.19.1
-Scrapy==1.0.5
+Scrapy==1.8.1
 seaborn==0.8.1
 service-identity==16.0.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1