Find outdated/updatable pip packages

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pip freeze shows me the packages installed, but how do I check against pypi which ones are outdated?

score 276 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '13 at 12:40

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Since version 1.3, pip features a new command:

$ pip list --outdated
requests (Current: 1.1.0 Latest: 1.2.0)

See this post for more information.

answered Apr 27 '13 at 12:40

Danilo Bargen

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited May 07 '21 at 09:09

Thing is, I never upgrade all packages. I upgrade only what I need, because projects may break.

Because there was no easy way to upgrade package by package and update the requirements.txt file, I wrote pip-upgrader which also updates the versions in your requirements.txt file for the packages chosen (or all packages).

Installation

pip install pip-upgrader

Usage

Activate your virtualenv (important, because it will also install the new versions of upgraded packages in the current virtualenv).

cd into your project directory, then run:

pip-upgrade

Advanced usage

If the requirements are placed in a non-standard location, send them as arguments:

pip-upgrade path/to/requirements.txt

If you already know what package you want to upgrade, simply send them as arguments:

pip-upgrade -p django -p celery -p dateutil

If you need to upgrade to pre-release / post-release version, add --prerelease argument to your command.

Full disclosure: I wrote this package.

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 14 '21 at 03:51

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Simple output:

pip list --outdated

See also docs on pip list --outdated option.

Pretty output:

pip install pip-check
pip-check

edited Oct 14 '21 at 03:51

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answered Apr 17 '20 at 09:29

Pikamander2

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score 3 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '16 at 08:33

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Use this pip fork:

https://github.com/dgladkov/pip

Which does exactly what you want using this command:

$ pip list --outdated

edited May 23 '16 at 08:33

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answered Apr 25 '11 at 13:37

Douglas Soares de Andrade

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lol, thanks dsa. We both already commented on the fork before :) – Xster Apr 26 '11 at 02:44
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Unmaintained project – Boris Verkhovskiy Jan 02 '20 at 15:52
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Unmaintained 9-year-old fork. Avoid. – smci Jun 15 '20 at 21:10

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 06 '13 at 11:04

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Perhaps pip-tools, available at https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools, might help you achieve what you want?

An example from the README:

$ pip-review --interactive
requests==0.14.0 available (you have 0.13.2)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit y
...
redis==2.6.2 available (you have 2.4.9)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit n
rq==0.3.2 available (you have 0.3.0)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit y
...

answered Feb 06 '13 at 11:04

Martin Thorsen Ranang

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It seems this package has now moved to https://github.com/jgonggrijp/pip-review – Droplet Jan 15 '17 at 18:37

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 23 '23 at 15:44

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pip list --outdated | gawk -F ' ' 'NR>2{print$1}' | xargs pip install --upgrade

handy way to update all outdate package without install any extra package

alias pip-update='pip list --outdated | gawk -F ' ' 'NR>2{print$1}' | xargs pip install --upgrade'

edited Jan 23 '23 at 15:44

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answered Jan 23 '23 at 13:48

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 01 '16 at 22:51

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Similar to pip list --outdated but updates a requirements.txt file:

pur -r requirements.txt

PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pur

GitHub: https://github.com/alanhamlett/pip-update-requirements

answered Jun 01 '16 at 22:51

Alan Hamlett

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 15 '22 at 06:38

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Or you can

pip list --o

List installed packages, including editables. pip list

answered Feb 15 '22 at 06:38

0m3r

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Find outdated/updatable pip packages

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