diff --git a/docs/generate_jupyterlite_iframe.py b/docs/generate_jupyterlite_iframe.py
index 8528a14c34..6cc81be38c 100644
--- a/docs/generate_jupyterlite_iframe.py
+++ b/docs/generate_jupyterlite_iframe.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 def main():
     code = """\
 import piplite
-await piplite.install(["pyhf==0.7.0rc4", "requests"])
+await piplite.install(["pyhf==0.7.0rc4"])
 %matplotlib inline
 import pyhf\
 """