diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0bcc78fc1..37d5cfa8f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 ws4py
 apache-libcloud
+requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c1249dd33..10f9c9593 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ def run_tests(self):
     long_description=open("README.rst", "r").read(),
     install_requires=[
         "ws4py==0.3.4",
-        "apache-libcloud==0.14.1"],
+        "apache-libcloud==0.14.1",
+        "requests"],
     entry_points={
         "gui_scripts": [
             "gns3 = gns3.main:main",