diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9c3d60f4..23f824ea 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ dev = [
   "pytest-dotenv>=0.5.2,<1.0.0",
   "tensorboard>=2.12.1,<3.0.0",
   "pandoc>=2.3,<3.0.0",
-  # extras for specific features
-  "requests",
 ]
 
 github-actions = ["pytest-github-actions-annotate-failures"]