Annotate your Python requirements.txt file with summaries of each package

Annotate your Python requirements.txt file with a short summary of each package.

This tool:

  • takes a Python requirements.txt file as input
  • fetches the summary of each package from the PyPi registry
  • outputs an equivalent requirements list with added comments summarizing each package

It can be used as a Python module or a command line script.

Example

Before:

black==21.9b0
gunicorn==20.1.0
pytz==2021.3
requests==2.26.0
rope==0.20.1
whitenoise==5.3.0

After: