diff --git a/.github/workflows/nosetests.yml b/.github/workflows/nosetests.yml
index 2f13df3b..d7463d7e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nosetests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nosetests.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 784646b0..5059d2d2 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -328,22 +328,6 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "importlib-metadata"
-version = "3.7.3"
-description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
-category = "main"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
-
-[package.dependencies]
-typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.6.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
-zipp = ">=0.5"
-
-[package.extras]
-docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=8.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
-testing = ["pytest (>=3.5,!=3.7.3)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=1.2.3)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler", "packaging", "pep517", "pyfakefs", "flufl.flake8", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-mypy", "importlib-resources (>=1.3)"]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "incremental"
 version = "21.3.0"
@@ -471,7 +455,6 @@ python-versions = "*"
 
 [package.dependencies]
 attrs = ">=17.4.0"
-importlib-metadata = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
 pyrsistent = ">=0.14.0"
 six = ">=1.11.0"
 
@@ -1084,19 +1067,6 @@ python-versions = ">=3.6"
 [package.dependencies]
 idna = ">=2.0"
 multidict = ">=4.0"
-typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.7.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
-
-[[package]]
-name = "zipp"
-version = "3.4.1"
-description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-category = "main"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
-
-[package.extras]
-docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=8.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
-testing = ["pytest (>=4.6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=1.2.3)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler", "jaraco.itertools", "func-timeout", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-mypy"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zope.interface"
@@ -1116,8 +1086,8 @@ misp = ["python-magic", "pydeep"]
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
-python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "0002e082bc9f722371afe173ff6da20fa1837995d1ebf7326b52717e51dbe519"
+python-versions = "^3.8"
+content-hash = "30ff4946f45949380132d6243d88aba0dd08ecaa2afb7ec5e8b0a74114913510"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = [
@@ -1336,10 +1306,6 @@ idna = [
     {file = "idna-2.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b97d804b1e9b523befed77c48dacec60e6dcb0b5391d57af6a65a312a90648c0"},
     {file = "idna-2.10.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b307872f855b18632ce0c21c5e45be78c0ea7ae4c15c828c20788b26921eb3f6"},
 ]
-importlib-metadata = [
-    {file = "importlib_metadata-3.7.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b74159469b464a99cb8cc3e21973e4d96e05d3024d337313fedb618a6e86e6f4"},
-    {file = "importlib_metadata-3.7.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:742add720a20d0467df2f444ae41704000f50e1234f46174b51f9c6031a1bd71"},
-]
 incremental = [
     {file = "incremental-21.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:92014aebc6a20b78a8084cdd5645eeaa7f74b8933f70fa3ada2cfbd1e3b54321"},
     {file = "incremental-21.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:02f5de5aff48f6b9f665d99d48bfc7ec03b6e3943210de7cfc88856d755d6f57"},
@@ -1877,10 +1843,6 @@ yarl = [
     {file = "yarl-1.6.3-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:4953fb0b4fdb7e08b2f3b3be80a00d28c5c8a2056bb066169de00e6501b986b6"},
     {file = "yarl-1.6.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8a9066529240171b68893d60dca86a763eae2139dd42f42106b03cf4b426bf10"},
 ]
-zipp = [
-    {file = "zipp-3.4.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:51cb66cc54621609dd593d1787f286ee42a5c0adbb4b29abea5a63edc3e03098"},
-    {file = "zipp-3.4.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3607921face881ba3e026887d8150cca609d517579abe052ac81fc5aeffdbd76"},
-]
 "zope.interface" = [
     {file = "zope.interface-5.2.0-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:518950fe6a5d56f94ba125107895f938a4f34f704c658986eae8255edb41163b"},
     {file = "zope.interface-5.2.0-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:6278c080d4afffc9016e14325f8734456831124e8c12caa754fd544435c08386"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 55146dc5..be187430 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ background_indexer = "bin.background_indexer:main"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.7"
+python = "^3.8"
 requests = "^2.25.1"
 flask = "^1.1.2"
 gunicorn = "^20.0.4"