diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 ## Requirements
+All requirements can be installed with `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+
 The required python libraries:  
    - [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/)    
    - [flask-restful](https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful/)  
    - [pymysql](https://pymysql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)  
    - [requests](https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/)
    - [pyyaml](https://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation) (For the swagger generation)
+   - [pip-tools](https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools) (For generating requirements.txt)
 
 ## Setup and running the API   
 The database connection needs to be set up first. This is set in config.json, an example config file called `config.json.example` is provided.
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+flask_restful == 0.3.7
+sqlalchemy == 1.3.8
+pymysql == 0.9.3
+pyyaml == 5.1.2
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# To update, run:
+#
+#    pip-compile
+#
+aniso8601==8.0.0          # via flask-restful
+click==7.0                # via flask
+flask==1.1.1              # via flask-restful
+flask_restful==0.3.7
+itsdangerous==1.1.0       # via flask
+jinja2==2.10.1            # via flask
+markupsafe==1.1.1         # via jinja2
+pymysql==0.9.3
+pytz==2019.2              # via flask-restful
+pyyaml==5.1.2
+six==1.12.0               # via flask-restful
+sqlalchemy==1.3.8
+werkzeug==0.16.0          # via flask