diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9da3f5cb..1613ae87 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "requests",
     "docutils",
     "tomli-w",
+    "pip",
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 readme = "README.rst"