requirements.txt

# Flask: the web framework that handles HTTP requests and routing
flask==3.1.1
# Joblib: loads the serialised model pipeline from disk
joblib==1.4.2
# Pandas: converts incoming json to DataFrame for the pipeline
pandas==2.2.2
# Numpy: required by scikit-learn and the model internally
numpy==2.0.2
# Scikit-learn: contains the preprocessor (OneHotEncoder, StandardScaler) and model
scikit-learn==1.6.1
# XGBoost: required if the best model is XGBoost
xgboost==2.1.4
# Gunicorn: production-grade WSGI server (replaces Flask's dev server)
gunicorn==23.0.0