diff --git a/appstream.spec b/appstream.spec
index 05e7fe3..11ac5be 100644
--- a/appstream.spec
+++ b/appstream.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ BuildRequires: intltool
 BuildRequires: itstool
 BuildRequires: libstemmer-devel
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(gio-2.0) pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0)
+BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libcurl)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libxml-2.0)
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig(lmdb)