quick-pipreqs

A CLI tool to quickly regenerate Python requirements.txt files using pipreqs across a project tree.

Why

I find myself in this situation often with clients:

├── util_1
│   └── requirements.txt
├── util_2
│   └── requirements.txt
└── util_n
    └── requirements.txt

Dependabot and Renovate often will get hung up on similar-sounding dependencies (e.g. boto and botocore getting stuck on noncompatible version) and I don't want to fuss over resolving merge conflicts. Ergo this utility walks a directory and refreshes each of the requirements.txt files. No fuss, no muss.

Installation

go install github.com/bevelwork/quick_pipreqs@latest

brew tap bevelwork/homebrew-tap
brew install quick-pipreqs

Prerequisites: Python environment with pipreqs installed (install pipreqs)

Usage

quick-pipreqs [options] <path>

Options

• --dry-run - Preview changes without executing
• --max-depth <int> - Maximum recursion depth (default: 2)
• --concurrency <n> - Max concurrent updates (default: 12)
• --version - Show version
• --verbose - Print discovered directories

Examples

# Update requirements.txt files in a project
quick-pipreqs /path/to/project

# Preview changes without writing files
quick-pipreqs --dry-run /path/to/project

# Only check root directory
quick-pipreqs --max-depth 0 /path/to/project

How it works

• Scans for directories containing requirements.txt files
• Backs up existing files to requirements.txt.bak
• Runs pipreqs in each directory to regenerate requirements with a progress spinner and colored summary output via quick_color
• Processes directories concurrently for speed

License

Apache 2.0.