pip-outdated 0.8.0

Installation

From pypi

pip install pip-outdated

Usage

usage: pip-outdated [-h] [-v] [-q] [<file> [<file> ...]]

Find outdated dependencies in your requirements.txt or setup.cfg file.

positional arguments:
  <file>         Read dependencies from requirements files. This option
                 accepts glob pattern. (default: ['requirements.txt',
                 'setup.cfg'])

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose  Print verbose information. (default: False)
  -q, --quiet    Don't return exit code 1 if not everything is up to date.
                 (default: False)

Check multiple files e.g. test-requirements.txt and dev-requirements.txt:

pip-outdated *-requirements.txt

Check files under requirements folder:

pip-outdated requirements/*.txt

Todos

• Add options to update the package?

• Add options to update the requirements.txt/setup.cfg file?

• Add options to list all packages? (e.g. -g, --global)

Changelog

• 0.8.0 (Aug 9, 2025)

  • Change: drop setuptools dependency, switch to configparse for reading setup.cfg.

• 0.7.0 (Aug 13, 2024)

  • Change: ignore InvalidVersion error.

• 0.6.0 (Jan 1, 2023)

  • Bump dependencies.

  • Drop cchardet.

  • Change: fetch package version from pip CLI, so we can get package version in venv.

• 0.5.0 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • Bump dependencies.

  • Add: typehint.

• 0.4.0 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Breaking: bump Python to 3.7

  • Add: request in parallel.

  • Add: --quiet option.

• 0.3.0 (Oct 13, 2019)

  • Breaking: set exit code to 1 if not all good.

  • Fix: don’t check prereleases.

  • Add: check setup_requires and extras_require in cfg files.

• 0.2.0 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Bump dependencies:

    • colorama@0.4.x

    • packaging@19.x

    • requests@2.x

    • termcolor@1.x

    • terminaltables@3.x

• 0.1.0 (May 12, 2018)

  • First release.