diff --git a/contrib/pyln-testing/pyproject.toml b/contrib/pyln-testing/pyproject.toml
index b991ba276ce1..e551acb4075e 100644
--- a/contrib/pyln-testing/pyproject.toml
+++ b/contrib/pyln-testing/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ psutil = "^5.9"
 
 grpcio = { version = "^1", optional = true }
 pyln-grpc-proto = { version = "^0.1", optional = true }
+requests = "^2.31.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pyln-client = { path = "../pyln-client", develop = true}