---
id: pip-api
version: "0.0.34"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pip-api — An unofficial, importable pip API

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install pip-api
uv add pip-api
poetry add pip-api

## Description

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[#github-license]: https://github.com/di/pip-api/blob/master/LICENSE
[#pypi-package]: https://pypi.org/project/pip-api/
[#conda-forge-package]: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pip-api
[#conda-forge-feedstock]: https://github.com/conda-forge/pip-api-feedstock
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Since [`pip`](https://pypi.org/p/pip) is a command-line-tool, [it does not have
an official, supported,...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Provides an importable Python API that wraps pip's command-line interface, allowing programmatic access to pip functionality like querying installed distributions and parsing requirements files.

Verdict: Stable, low-friction wrapper around pip's CLI with active maintenance and no known vulnerabilities. Suitable for tools that need programmatic access to pip functionality without relying on pip's unsupported internal API. Used by established projects like pip-audit and pytest-reqs.

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