diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3546b59..fa95045 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -144,4 +144,5 @@ cython_debug/
 
 # project-specific
 run/
-*.tw_session
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+*.tw_session
+.venv*
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diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8178f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+python-dotenv
+nest-asyncio
+pytz
+git+https://github.com/mahrtayyab/tweety.git@e3d330280cb3b2e8f9d2bf2f20425c476f7671a5
+tweepy
+tweet-capture
+opencv-python-headless
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