diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0d2f61b00..029c0cffa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ pygments==2.1.3
 pyopenssl==0.15.1
 python-dateutil==2.5.3
 pyyaml==3.11
-requests==2.10.0
+requests[socks]==2.10.0
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 2c034a863..c0422d95a 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ outgoing: # communication with search engines
     pool_maxsize : 10 # Number of simultaneous requests by host
 # uncomment below section if you want to use a proxy
 # see http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
-# SOCKS proxies are not supported : see https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/478
+# SOCKS proxies are also supported: see http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#socks
 #    proxies :
 #        http : http://127.0.0.1:8080
 #        https: http://127.0.0.1:8080