diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
index 3bd14c94..f99e19fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.x" # Version range or exact version of a Python version to use, using SemVer's version range syntax
           architecture: "x64"
 
+      - name: Install requests
+        run: python -m pip install requests
+
       #Run benchmark with `python bench/bench.py` and stores the output to a file
       - name: Run benchmark
         run: python bench/bench.py | tee ${{ matrix.bench.script }}-output.txt