diff --git a/conda/meta.yaml b/conda/meta.yaml
index 4c3b15832aed4d640ba0526be97bd1a0e6b85939..2a3fb6df52b27678fb8c18fc9c7884f0d17b6465 100644
--- a/conda/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/meta.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ requirements:
     - distributed {{ distributed }}
     - scikit-learn {{ scikit_learn }}
     - xarray {{ xarray }}
-    - h5py {{h5py}}
+    - h5py {{ h5py }}
+    - requests {{ requests }}
     # optional dependencies
     - dask-ml {{ dask_ml }}
   run:
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ requirements:
     - {{ pin_compatible('scikit-learn') }}
     - {{ pin_compatible('xarray') }}
     - {{ pin_compatible('h5py') }}
+    - requests
   run_constrained:
     - {{ pin_compatible('dask-ml') }}
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8eb2af5224064726f3ff6a6ee254970eee2f0aeb..7be64e5edb290322230928833163d1b6b95e62b8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
         "dask-jobqueue",
         "xarray",
         "h5py",
+        "requests",
     ]
 
 [project.urls]