diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index daa2b7a2..b4f0de0d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Pygments>=2.7.1
 python-magic>=0.4.18
 scikit_learn>=0.23.2
 selenium>=3.141.0
-showast>=0.2.4
-
+# showast>=0.2.4
+showast @ git+https://github.com/andreas-zeller/show_ast.git@andreas
 
 ## Additionally, these packages are needed to create the (HTML) book: