diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 82e31bf149..c9fb8b2987 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ REQ_FILES = \
 	requirements/edx-sandbox/base \
 	requirements/edx/base \
 	requirements/edx/testing \
-	requirements/edx/development
+	requirements/edx/development \
+	scripts/xblock/requirements
 
 upgrade: export CUSTOM_COMPILE_COMMAND=make upgrade
 upgrade: ## update the pip requirements files to use the latest releases satisfying our constraints
diff --git a/scripts/xblock/requirements.in b/scripts/xblock/requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2293605cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/xblock/requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+requests
diff --git a/scripts/xblock/requirements.txt b/scripts/xblock/requirements.txt
index 78cbc8441e..a983f56144 100644
--- a/scripts/xblock/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/xblock/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,11 @@
-requests==2.10.0
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# To update, run:
+#
+#    make upgrade
+#
+certifi==2019.3.9         # via requests
+chardet==3.0.4            # via requests
+idna==2.8                 # via requests
+requests==2.22.0
+urllib3==1.25.3           # via requests