Description of problem: The version of python-requests currently in F20, 1.2.3, is quite far behind the upstream. The linkchecker package in Fedora has an undeclared dependency on python-requests (see Bug #1084503) but the version of python-requests needed is 2.2.0 or greater. Please update the package in F20 to the latest upstream - 2.3.0.
Just ran into this myself. I second the motion :-).
Will do it this week!
This package has many bugs now. Please update as soon as possible. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1023411 ***