diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2222541..9e6f0cd 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ The same parameters apply to the ``spotlight.candidates`` function.
 
 The following exceptions can occur:
 
+* ``ValueError`` when:
+
+  - the JSON response could not be decoded.
+
 * ``SpotlightException`` when:
 
-  - the response from spotlight did not contain any valid JSON.
   - the JSON response did not contain any needed fields or was not formed as
     excepted.
   - You forgot to explicitly specify a protocol (http/https) in the API URL.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 80075ff..5ce7838 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Testing also requires nose==1.2.1
-requests==0.14.1
+# Testing also requires nose>=1.2.1
+requests==1.2.3