# Installing imageio

Imageio is written in pure Python, so installation is easy. Imageio works on Python 2.7 and 3.4+. It also works on Pypy. Imageio depends on Numpy and Pillow. For some formats, imageio needs additional libraries/executables (e.g. ffmpeg), which imageio helps you download and store in a folder in your application data.

To install imageio, use one of the following methods:

- If you are in a conda env: `conda install -c conda-forge imageio`
- If you have pip: `pip install imageio`
- Good old `python setup.py install`

After installation, checkout the examples and user api.

## Developers

For developers, we provide a simple mechanism to allow importing imageio from the cloned repository. See the file `imageio.proxy.py` for details.

Further imageio has the following dev-dependencies:

`pip install black pytest pytest-cov sphinx numpydoc`