diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 2a831a4..bde3c42 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 [![rstudio mirror downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/crul)](https://github.com/metacran/cranlogs.app)
 [![cran version](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/crul)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=crul)
 
-An HTTP client, taking inspiration from Ruby's [faraday](https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday) and Python's [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/)
+An HTTP client, taking inspiration from Ruby's [faraday](https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday) and Python's `requests`
 
 Package API:
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index edbcf92..4ce9b25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ crul
 [![rstudio mirror downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/crul)](https://github.com/metacran/cranlogs.app)
 [![cran version](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/crul)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=crul)
 
-An HTTP client, taking inspiration from Ruby's [faraday](https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday) and Python's [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/)
+An HTTP client, taking inspiration from Ruby's [faraday](https://rubygems.org/gems/faraday) and Python's `requests`
 
 Package API: