Installing Prefect

Requirements

Prefect requires Python 3.5.2+, and Python 3.6 or higher is recommended.

Installation

To install Prefect, run:

pip install prefect

or, if you prefer to use conda:

conda install -c conda-forge prefect

or pipenv:

pipenv install --pre prefect

Optional dependencies

Prefect ships with a number of optional dependencies, which can be installed using "extras" syntax:

pip install "prefect[extra_1, extra_2]"

The extra packages include:

• all_extras: includes all of the optional dependencies
• dev: tools for developing Prefect itself
• templates: tools for working with string templates
• viz: tools for visualizing Prefect flows
• aws: tools for interacting with Amazon Web Services
• google: tools for interacting with Google Cloud Platform
• kubernetes: tools for interacting with Kubernetes API objects
• twitter: tools for interacting with the Twitter API
• airtable: tools for interacting with the Airtable API
• spacy: tools for building NLP pipelines using Spacy
• redis: tools for interacting with a Redis database

Development

For developing Prefect, see the development guide.