So far it only supports local files and directories, as seen in https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-pypi/pull/111. @danyeaw suggests: > I would think we would want the convert command to take multiple formats: > > 1. Package names: requests, numpy, packaging > 2. Version specifications: requests>=2.25.0, numpy==1.21.* > 3. (Direct) URLs to wheels: `https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/...`