diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 65964d79a..e17d97417 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ python-telegram-bot==21.1
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 arrow==1.3.0
+humanize==4.9.0
 cachetools==5.3.3
 requests==2.31.0
 urllib3==2.2.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3caf74694..f52e52418 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ setup(
         'SQLAlchemy>=2.0.6',
         'python-telegram-bot>=20.1',
         'arrow>=1.0.0',
+        'humanize>=4.0.0',
         'cachetools',
         'requests',
         'httpx>=0.24.1',