diff --git a/moonstreamapi/deploy/deploy.bash b/moonstreamapi/deploy/deploy.bash
index cbf019e0..b4e3ad0e 100755
--- a/moonstreamapi/deploy/deploy.bash
+++ b/moonstreamapi/deploy/deploy.bash
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ echo -e "${PREFIX_INFO} Upgrading Python pip and setuptools"
 echo
 echo
 echo -e "${PREFIX_INFO} Installing Python dependencies"
-"${PIP}" install -e "${APP_DIR}/moonstreamapi/"
+"${PIP}" install --exists-action i -r "${APP_DIR}/moonstreamapi/requirements.txt"
 
 echo
 echo
diff --git a/moonstreamapi/requirements.txt b/moonstreamapi/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..51153ffc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/moonstreamapi/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+aiohttp==3.8.3
+aiosignal==1.3.1
+alembic==1.8.1
+anyio==3.6.2
+appdirs==1.4.4
+async-timeout==4.0.2
+attrs==22.1.0
+base58==2.1.1
+bitarray==2.6.0
+boto3==1.26.5
+botocore==1.29.5
+bugout==0.2.9
+certifi==2022.9.24
+charset-normalizer==2.1.1
+click==8.1.3
+cytoolz==0.12.0
+eth-abi==2.2.0
+eth-account==0.5.9
+eth-hash==0.5.0
+eth-keyfile==0.5.1
+eth-keys==0.3.4
+eth-rlp==0.2.1
+eth-typing==2.3.0
+eth-utils==1.9.5
+fastapi==0.86.0
+frozenlist==1.3.3
+future==0.18.2
+greenlet==2.0.1
+h11==0.14.0
+hexbytes==0.3.0
+humbug==0.2.7
+idna==3.4
+ipfshttpclient==0.8.0a2
+jmespath==1.0.1
+jsonschema==4.17.0
+lru-dict==1.1.8
+Mako==1.2.3
+MarkupSafe==2.1.1
+moonstream-entity==0.0.5
+moonstreamdb==0.3.3
+multiaddr==0.0.9
+multidict==6.0.2
+netaddr==0.8.0
+parsimonious==0.8.1
+protobuf==3.19.5
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.5
+pycryptodome==3.15.0
+pydantic==1.10.2
+pyevmasm==0.2.3
+pyrsistent==0.19.2
+python-dateutil==2.8.2
+python-multipart==0.0.5
+python-slugify==6.1.2
+requests==2.28.1
+rlp==2.0.1
+s3transfer==0.6.0
+six==1.16.0
+sniffio==1.3.0
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.5.post1
+starlette==0.20.4
+text-unidecode==1.3
+toolz==0.12.0
+typing_extensions==4.4.0
+urllib3==1.26.12
+uvicorn==0.19.0
+varint==1.0.2
+web3==5.31.1
+websockets==9.1
+yarl==1.8.1
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