Installation

Stable release

Adding SPADE to your Python project

We recommend using uv to manage your Python projects. It’s fast and makes dependency management easy.

If you don’t have uv installed, see the uv installation guide.

If you haven’t created a uv-managed project yet, create one:

$ uv init spade-demo
$ cd spade-demo

Then add SPADE to your project dependencies:

$ uv add spade

Installing SPADE without a project

If you don’t want to create a uv project, you can still install SPADE globally using uv’s pip interface:

$ uv pip install spade

Traditional installation with pip

For projects using pip directly for dependencies:

$ pip install spade

This will install the most recent stable release. If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for SPADE can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/javipalanca/spade

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/javipalanca/spade/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with uv (recommended):

$ uv sync

Or with pip (traditional method):

$ pip install -e .

For development purposes, you can install with development dependencies:

$ uv sync --extra dev

Or with pip:

$ pip install -e .[dev]