diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f77571440..e78b4cc0e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ setup(
     ],
     install_requires=[
         'Twisted>=10.0.0',
-        'w3lib>=1.2',
+        'w3lib>=1.8.0',
         'queuelib',
         'lxml',
         'pyOpenSSL',