Python script designed to update pip packages.
Clone this repository using git clone.
git clone https://github.com/Geek-MD/pip-updater.git
Then execute start.sh. This will install all dependencies needed by the script
listed on requirements.txt.
./start.sh
Once the script is finished, you will get information on how to run the python script.
The basic syntax to run the script is as follows.
python3 pip-updater.py
You can check the script's help by using the -h or --help option.
python3 pip-updater.py -h
python3 pip-updater.py --help
You can check the script's version by using the -v or --version option.
python3 pip-updater.py -v
python3 pip-updater.py --version
There are 4 optional modificators.
With -l or --list you can list all outdated pip packages, without updating them.
With -i or --interactive you will be prompted to update each package separately.
With -e or --exceptions, the script will search in exceptions.txt, for packages which you don't want to be updated, or packages you want to be frozen at a specific version. Write one package per line, using "name" format if you want to exclude it from updating, or using "name==version" format if you want to freeze a package at a specific version.
Finally, with -a or --add-pkgs, you can add one or more packages to the exceptions.txt file using the same format required for the --exceptions option, separating one package from another with a space.
--interactive, --exceptions and --add-pkgs options can be used together, but --list excludes all other options.
Here's an example of how exceptions.txt will look like. In this example, the package argparse will be frozen at version 3.11 and numpy will not be updated.
argparse==3.11
numpy
You can run the script with crontab using the following command. Remember to use simple quotes for the cron expression.
python3 pip-updater.py -c '0 4 */7,14,21,28 * *'
In the example, the script will run at 4:00 on day 7, 14, 21 and 28 of every month.
The only option that can be used in conjunction with -c, is -e or --exceptions.