diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
index e69de29..0fbb7a2 100644
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+swh.core
+swh.storage
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c197192..3b46e89 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Add here external Python modules dependencies, one per line. Module names
 # should match https://pypi.python.org/pypi names. For the full spec or
 # dependency lines, see https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
+kafka-python
+msgpack-python
 vcversioner
-kafka