diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7d13a22b..68dde940 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "python/ycm/completers/cs/OmniSharpServer"]
 	path = python/ycm/completers/cs/OmniSharpServer
 	url = https://github.com/nosami/OmniSharpServer.git
+[submodule "third_party/requests-futures"]
+	path = third_party/requests-futures
+	url = https://github.com/ross/requests-futures
diff --git a/third_party/requests-futures b/third_party/requests-futures
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..79e52563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/requests-futures
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 79e525634e33d86cb5f3e62dcba88f98fe4f4cbc