diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9d0ee7d..56c7261 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 *.asc
 *.txt
 node_modules
-__pycache__
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+__pycache__
+!requirements.txt
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 04665cc..e65cf1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ Lynx is a a simple Telegram bot made in Node.js.
 ## Requirements
  - A Telegram bot (create one at [@BotFather](https://t.me/botfather))
  - Node.js 20 LTS (or above)
- - node-telegram-bot-api (install with ``npm install node-telegram-bot-api``)
+ - Python 3 (or above, for use with SpamWatch API)
+ - Python dependencies: use ``pip install -r requirements.txt``
+ - Node.js dependencies: use ``npm install``
 
 ## Run it yourself, develop or contribute with Lynx
 First, [make a fork of this repo](https://github.com/lucmsilva651/lynx/fork), or clone it with
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..989a366
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+python-dotenv
+spamwatch
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