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Back to top  (../../_sources/cli/pip_download.rst.txt) (View this page)   View this page   (https://github.com/pypa/pip/edit/main/docs/html/cli/pip_download.rst) (Edit this page)   Edit this page   Toggle Light / Dark / Auto color theme           Toggle table of contents sidebar       pip download(Link to this heading) ¶  Usage(Link to this heading) ¶  Unix/macOS  python - m pip download [ options ] < requirement specifier > [ package - index - options ] ... python - m pip download [ options ] - r < requirements file > [ package - index - options ] ... python - m pip download [ options ] < vcs project url > ... python - m pip download [ options ] < local project path > ... python - m pip download [ options ] < archive url / path > ...  Copy to clipboard         Windows  py - m pip download [ options ] < requirement specifier > [ package - index - options ] ... py - m pip download [ options ] - r < requirements file > [ package - index - options ] ... py - m pip download [ options ] < vcs project url > ... py - m pip download [ options ] < local project path > ... py - m pip download [ options ] < archive url / path > ...  Copy to clipboard           Description(Link to this heading) ¶   Download packages from: PyPI (and other indexes) using requirement specifiers.  VCS project urls.  Local project directories.  Local or remote source archives.   pip also supports downloading from “requirements files”, which provide
an easy way to specify a whole environment to be downloaded.  Overview(Link to this heading) ¶  pip download  does the same resolution and downloading as pip install  ,
but instead of installing the dependencies, it collects the downloaded
distributions into the directory provided (defaulting to the current
directory). This directory can later be passed as the value to pip install --find-links  to facilitate offline or locked down package installation. pip download  with the --platform  , --python-version  , --implementation  , and --abi  options provides the ability to fetch
dependencies for an interpreter and system other than the ones that pip is
running on. --only-binary=:all:  or --no-deps  is required when using any
of these options. It is important to note that these options all default to the
current system/interpreter, and not to the most restrictive constraints (e.g.
platform any, abi none, etc). To avoid fetching dependencies that happen to
match the constraint of the current interpreter (but not your target one), it
is recommended to specify all of these options if you are specifying one of
them. Generic dependencies (e.g. universal wheels, or dependencies with no
platform, abi, or implementation constraints) will still match an over-
constrained download requirement. If some of your dependencies are not
available as binaries, you can build them manually for your target platform
and let pip download know where to find them using --find-links  .   Options(Link to this heading) ¶     -c   ,  --constraint  <file>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Constrain versions using the given constraints file. This option can be used multiple times. (environment variable: PIP_CONSTRAINT  )     -r   ,  --requirement  <file>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Install from the given requirements file. This option can be used multiple times. (environment variable: PIP_REQUIREMENT  )    --no-deps   (Link to this definition) ¶  Don’t install package dependencies. (environment variable: PIP_NO_DEPS  , PIP_NO_DEPENDENCIES  )    --global-option  <options>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Extra global options to be supplied to the setup.py call before the install or bdist_wheel command. (environment variable: PIP_GLOBAL_OPTION  )    --no-binary  <format_control>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Do not use binary packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either “:all:” to disable all binary packages, “:none:” to empty the set (notice the colons), or one or more package names with commas between them (no colons). Note that some packages are tricky to compile and may fail to install when this option is used on them. (environment variable: PIP_NO_BINARY  )    --only-binary  <format_control>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Do not use source packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either “:all:” to disable all source packages, “:none:” to empty the set, or one or more package names with commas between them. Packages without binary distributions will fail to install when this option is used on them. (environment variable: PIP_ONLY_BINARY  )    --prefer-binary   (Link to this definition) ¶  Prefer binary packages over source packages, even if the source packages are newer. (environment variable: PIP_PREFER_BINARY  )    --src  <dir>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Directory to check out editable projects into. The default in a virtualenv is “<venv path>/src”. The default for global installs is “<current dir>/src”. (environment variable: PIP_SRC  , PIP_SOURCE  , PIP_SOURCE_DIR  , PIP_SOURCE_DIRECTORY  )    --pre   (Link to this definition) ¶  Include pre-release and development versions. By default, pip only finds stable versions. (environment variable: PIP_PRE  )    --require-hashes   (Link to this definition) ¶  Require a hash to check each requirement against, for repeatable installs. This option is implied when any package in a requirements file has a --hash option. (environment variable: PIP_REQUIRE_HASHES  )    --progress-bar  <progress_bar>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Specify whether the progress bar should be used [on, off, raw] (default: on) (environment variable: PIP_PROGRESS_BAR  )    --no-build-isolation   (Link to this definition) ¶  Disable isolation when building a modern source distribution. Build dependencies specified by PEP 518 must be already installed if this option is used. (environment variable: PIP_NO_BUILD_ISOLATION  )    --use-pep517   (Link to this definition) ¶  Use PEP 517 for building source distributions (use --no-use-pep517 to force legacy behaviour). (environment variable: PIP_USE_PEP517  )    --check-build-dependencies   (Link to this definition) ¶  Check the build dependencies when PEP517 is used. (environment variable: PIP_CHECK_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES  )    --ignore-requires-python   (Link to this definition) ¶  Ignore the Requires-Python information. (environment variable: PIP_IGNORE_REQUIRES_PYTHON  )     -d   ,  --dest  <dir>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Download packages into <dir>. (environment variable: PIP_DEST  , PIP_DESTINATION_DIR  , PIP_DESTINATION_DIRECTORY  )    --platform  <platform>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Only use wheels compatible with <platform>. Defaults to the platform of the running system. Use this option multiple times to specify multiple platforms supported by the target interpreter. (environment variable: PIP_PLATFORM  )    --python-version  <python_version>  (Link to this definition) ¶  The Python interpreter version to use for wheel and “Requires-Python”
compatibility checks. Defaults to a version derived from the running
interpreter. The version can be specified using up to three dot-separated
integers (e.g. “3” for 3.0.0, “3.7” for 3.7.0, or “3.7.3”). A major-minor
version can also be given as a string without dots (e.g. “37” for 3.7.0). (environment variable: PIP_PYTHON_VERSION  )    --implementation  <implementation>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Only use wheels compatible with Python implementation <implementation>, e.g. ‘pp’, ‘jy’, ‘cp’,  or ‘ip’. If not specified, then the current interpreter implementation is used.  Use ‘py’ to force implementation-agnostic wheels. (environment variable: PIP_IMPLEMENTATION  )    --abi  <abi>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Only use wheels compatible with Python abi <abi>, e.g. ‘pypy_41’. If not specified, then the current interpreter abi tag is used. Use this option multiple times to specify multiple abis supported by the target interpreter. Generally you will need to specify --implementation, --platform, and --python-version when using this option. (environment variable: PIP_ABI  )    --no-clean   (Link to this definition) ¶  Don’t clean up build directories. (environment variable: PIP_NO_CLEAN  )       -i   ,  --index-url  <url>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Base URL of the Python Package Index (default (https://pypi.org/simple) https://pypi.org/simple ). This should point to a repository compliant with PEP 503 (the simple repository API) or a local directory laid out in the same format. (environment variable: PIP_INDEX_URL  , PIP_PYPI_URL  )    --extra-index-url  <url>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Extra URLs of package indexes to use in addition to --index-url. Should follow the same rules as --index-url. (environment variable: PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL  )    --no-index   (Link to this definition) ¶  Ignore package index (only looking at --find-links URLs instead). (environment variable: PIP_NO_INDEX  )     -f   ,  --find-links  <url>  (Link to this definition) ¶  If a URL or path to an html file, then parse for links to archives such as sdist (.tar.gz) or wheel (.whl) files. If a local path or (file://) file:// URL that’s a directory, then look for archives in the directory listing. Links to VCS project URLs are not supported. (environment variable: PIP_FIND_LINKS  )     Examples(Link to this heading) ¶  Download a package and all of its dependencies Unix/macOS  python -m pip download SomePackage
python -m pip download -d . SomePackage # equivalent to above python -m pip download --no-index --find-links= /tmp/wheelhouse -d /tmp/otherwheelhouse SomePackage  Copy to clipboard         Windows  py -m pip download SomePackage
py -m pip download -d . SomePackage # equivalent to above py -m pip download --no-index --find-links= /tmp/wheelhouse -d /tmp/otherwheelhouse SomePackage  Copy to clipboard           Download a package and all of its dependencies with OSX specific interpreter constraints.
This forces OSX 10.10 or lower compatibility. Since OSX deps are forward compatible,
this will also match macosx_10_9_x86_64  , macosx_10_8_x86_64  , macosx_10_8_intel  ,
etc.
It will also match deps with platform any  . Also force the interpreter version to 27  (or more generic, i.e. 2  ) and implementation to cp  (or more generic, i.e. py  ). Unix/macOS  python -m pip download \  --only-binary= :all: \  --platform macosx_10_10_x86_64 \  --python-version 27  \  --implementation cp \  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard         Windows  py -m pip download ^  --only-binary= :all: ^  --platform macosx_10_10_x86_64 ^  --python-version 27  ^  --implementation cp ^  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard           Download a package and its dependencies with linux specific constraints.
Force the interpreter to be any minor version of py3k, and only accept cp34m  or none  as the abi. Unix/macOS  python -m pip download \  --only-binary= :all: \  --platform linux_x86_64 \  --python-version 3  \  --implementation cp \  --abi cp34m \  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard         Windows  py -m pip download ^  --only-binary= :all: ^  --platform linux_x86_64 ^  --python-version 3  ^  --implementation cp ^  --abi cp34m ^  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard           Force platform, implementation, and abi agnostic deps. Unix/macOS  python -m pip download \  --only-binary= :all: \  --platform any \  --python-version 3  \  --implementation py \  --abi none \  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard         Windows  py -m pip download ^  --only-binary= :all: ^  --platform any ^  --python-version 3  ^  --implementation py ^  --abi none ^  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard           Even when overconstrained, this will still correctly fetch the pip universal wheel. Unix/macOS  $  python -m pip download \  --only-binary= :all: \  --platform linux_x86_64 \  --python-version 33  \  --implementation cp \  --abi cp34m \  pip>= 8  Copy to clipboard         $  ls pip-8.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl pip-8.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl  Copy to clipboard         Windows  C:\> py -m pip download ^ --only-binary=:all: ^ --platform linux_x86_64 ^ --python-version 33 ^ --implementation cp ^ --abi cp34m ^ pip>=8  Copy to clipboard         C:\> dir pip-8.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl pip-8.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl  Copy to clipboard           Download a package supporting one of several ABIs and platforms. This is useful when fetching wheels for a well-defined interpreter, whose
supported ABIs and platforms are known and fixed, different than the one pip is
running under.   Unix/macOS  $  python -m pip download \  --only-binary= :all: \  --platform manylinux1_x86_64 --platform linux_x86_64 --platform any \  --python-version 36  \  --implementation cp \  --abi cp36m --abi cp36 --abi abi3 --abi none \  SomePackage  Copy to clipboard         Windows  C:> py -m pip download ^ --only-binary=:all: ^ --platform manylinux1_x86_64 --platform linux_x86_64 --platform any ^ --python-version 36 ^ --implementation cp ^ --abi cp36m --abi cp36 --abi abi3 --abi none ^ SomePackage  Copy to clipboard                (../pip_wheel/) Next  pip wheel     (../pip_check/)   Previous  pip check    (../../copyright/) Copyright © The pip developers  Made with (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/) Sphinx and (https://pradyunsg.me) @pradyunsg 's (https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo) Furo  (https://readthedocs.org/projects/pip)    (https://github.com/pypa/pip)         On this page   pip download Usage  Description Overview    Options  Examples