diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ccb5e7b..8fe2dab 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ pytest-flake8==0.6
 python-dateutil==2.6.1
 python-decouple==3.1
 pytz==2017.3
-PyYAML==3.12
+PyYAML==5.4
 readability-api==1.0.2
 requests==2.18.4
 requests-oauthlib==0.8.0