diff --git a/linkcheck/__init__.py b/linkcheck/__init__.py
--- a/linkcheck/__init__.py	2014-07-16 13:34:58.000000000 +0800
+++ b/linkcheck/__init__.py	2016-10-11 10:42:08.914085950 +0800
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
         sys.version_info < (2, 7, 2, 'final', 0)):
     raise SystemExit("This program requires Python 2.7.2 or later.")
 import requests
-if requests.__version__ <= '2.2.0':
-    raise SystemExit("This program requires Python requests 2.2.0 or later.")
+#if requests.__version__ <= '2.2.0':
+#    raise SystemExit("This program requires Python requests 2.2.0 or later.")
 
 import os
 # add the custom linkcheck_dns directory to sys.path