diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
index ac41b4d1..451baa8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.x"
           architecture: "x64"
+          cache: "pip"
+
+      - name: Install requests
+        run: python -m pip install requests
 
       - name: Run benchmark
         run: python bench/bench.py | tee ${{ matrix.bench.script }}-output.txt