diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index fdc8020b9..5f562b6cd 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ deps =
     {[testenv:misc]deps}
     git+https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid.git
     git+https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint.git
+    requests==2.9.1
     ./scripts/dev/pylint_checkers
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}