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Adam Stewart
Adam Stewart

Reputation: 2149

Finding reverse dependencies of a package on PyPI

I would like to find which packages on PyPI depend on a specific package. This is easy to do on package indexes for other languages. For example:

Is this possible on PyPI?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1233

Answers (4)

Peter K
Peter K

Reputation: 2484

This answer suggests that it's not really possible, due to the fact that it's possible to add dependencies dynamically. Any results you would get would be partial.

Upvotes: 1

Peter K
Peter K

Reputation: 2484

Another place to look: if this is a GitHub project, check out its 'Used By' section:

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For example: https://github.com/pksol/mock_autogen -> https://github.com/pksol/mock_autogen/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS00OTA5NDgxNTQ%3D

Upvotes: 3

sytech
sytech

Reputation: 41159

PyPI does not track dependencies in any way. Dependencies are normally resolved by the installer (e.g. pip) dynamically by actually retrieving the packages.

Some third parties do attempt to collect this information, such as libraries.io which provides a "used by" summary. For projects mutually available on GitHub.com, GitHub may also provide information on a project's dependents.

A big difference between PyPI repository packages and, say, CRAN is that packages are not required to explicitly declare their dependencies as package metadata, which would make reverse-lookups trivial. Unfortunately, due to the method/flexibility PyPI packages have in declaring dependencies, this is not possible/practical for PyPI.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Stewart
Adam Stewart

Reputation: 2149

Found one possible answer. Wheelodex has a reverse dependencies index. For example, for setuptools:

Upvotes: 7

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