> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://wiki.simpler.grants.gov/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://wiki.simpler.grants.gov/product/api/simpler-grants-api-tutorial/lets-make-a-python-script-to-use-the-api/install-the-only-dependency-we-need.md).

# Install the only dependency we need

We need to install the requests package to make it easier to interact with the API. This command will use the python package manager pip to install requests into our isolated virtual environment.

```bash
pip install requests
```

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