diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7c26c6c2c1..5517d4434f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/crashpad"]
 	path = vendor/crashpad
 	url = https://github.com/atom/crashpad.git
+[submodule "vendor/requests"]
+	path = vendor/requests
+	url = https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
diff --git a/script/bootstrap.py b/script/bootstrap.py
index fd9958d9ca..94a566224c 100755
--- a/script/bootstrap.py
+++ b/script/bootstrap.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def main():
     update_clang()
 
   update_submodules()
+  setup_requests()
   update_node_modules('.')
   bootstrap_brightray(args.dev, args.url, args.target_arch)
 
@@ -84,6 +85,11 @@ def update_submodules():
   execute_stdout(['git', 'submodule', 'update', '--init', '--recursive'])
 
 
+def setup_requests():
+  with scoped_cwd(os.path.join(VENDOR_DIR, 'requests')):
+    execute_stdout([sys.executable, 'setup.py', 'build'])
+
+
 def bootstrap_brightray(is_dev, url, target_arch):
   bootstrap = os.path.join(VENDOR_DIR, 'brightray', 'script', 'bootstrap')
   args = [
@@ -109,7 +115,7 @@ def update_node_modules(dirname, env=None):
   with scoped_cwd(dirname):
     args = [NPM, 'install']
     if is_verbose_mode():
-      args += '--verbose'
+      args += ['--verbose']
     # Ignore npm install errors when running in CI.
     if os.environ.has_key('CI'):
       try:
diff --git a/script/lib/github.py b/script/lib/github.py
index a742a209c1..5e968d6698 100644
--- a/script/lib/github.py
+++ b/script/lib/github.py
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import json
+import os
 import re
+import sys
+
+sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..', '..',
+                                             'vendor', 'requests', 'build',
+                                             'lib')))
 import requests
 
 GITHUB_URL = 'https://api.github.com'
diff --git a/vendor/requests b/vendor/requests
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..e4d59bedfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/requests
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit e4d59bedfd3c7f4f254f4f5d036587bcd8152458