diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cdc5569dd..da6bdefb6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ pyflakes>=1.5.0
 pyopenssl>=17.5.0		# Used by urllib3.contrib, which is used by PyQuery but not marked as a dependency
 pyquery>=1.3.0
 python-dateutil>=2.4
-python-magic>=0.4.12
+python-magic>=0.4.12,<0.4.19    # .20 is breaking, .19 is not showing on PyPi's webpage
 python-memcached>=1.56		# for django.core.cache.backends.memcached
 python-mimeparse>=1.6		# from TastyPie
 pytz>=2014.7