How to use Python's pip to download and keep the zipped files for a package?

Question

If I want to use the pip command to download a package (and its dependencies), but keep all of the zipped files that get downloaded (say, django-social

Answer 1

Use pip download to download all the packages including dependencies

Use pip install --no-index --find-links . to install all the packages including dependencies. It gets all the files from CWD. It will not download anything