diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,9 +49,16 @@ file on-the-fly.
 
 A note about contributing: updates should be added/made to `robots.json`. A GitHub action will then generate the updated `robots.txt`, `table-of-bot-metrics.md`, `.htaccess` and `nginx-block-ai-bots.conf`.
 
-You can run the tests by [installing](https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/) Python 3 and issuing:
+You can run the tests by [installing](https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/) Python 3, installing the depenendcies, and then issuing:
 ```console
 code/tests.py
+
+### Installing Dependencies
+
+Before running the tests, install all required Python packages:
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+
 ```
 
 ## Releasing
@@ -97,3 +104,5 @@ But even if you don't use Cloudflare's hard block, their list of [verified bots]
 - [Blockin' bots on Netlify](https://www.jeremiak.com/blog/block-bots-netlify-edge-functions/) by Jeremia Kimelman
 - [Blocking AI web crawlers](https://underlap.org/blocking-ai-web-crawlers) by Glyn Normington
 - [Block AI Bots from Crawling Websites Using Robots.txt](https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking) by Jonathan Gillham, Originality.AI
+
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+beautifulsoup4
+lxml
+requests