diff --git a/pipreqs/pipreqs.py b/pipreqs/pipreqs.py
index 24eeeb7..7d05a86 100644
--- a/pipreqs/pipreqs.py
+++ b/pipreqs/pipreqs.py
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ def get_all_imports(
     for root, dirs, files in walk:
         dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d not in ignore_dirs]
 
+        ipynb_files = [fn for fn in files if os.path.splitext(fn)[1] == ".ipynb"]
+
+        for ipynb_file in ipynb_files:
+            os.system("ipython nbconvert --to script " + str(ipynb_file))
+
         candidates.append(os.path.basename(root))
         files = [fn for fn in files if os.path.splitext(fn)[1] == ".py"]
 
@@ -130,6 +135,11 @@ def get_all_imports(
                     logging.error("Failed on file: %s" % file_name)
                     raise exc
 
+    # Clean up created .py files from .ipynb files
+
+    for ipynb_file in ipynb_files:
+        os.remove(ipynb_file.replace("ipynb", "py"))
+
     # Clean up imports
     for name in [n for n in raw_imports if n]:
         # Sanity check: Name could have been None if the import
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 959d1b7..6730091 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 wheel==0.23.0
 Yarg==0.1.9
-docopt==0.6.2
\ No newline at end of file
+docopt==0.6.2
+ipython==8.4.0
+nbconvert==7.0.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/_data_ignore/requirements.txt b/tests/_data_ignore/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e1e92d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/_data_ignore/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+asposestorage==1.0.2
+beautifulsoup4==4.11.1
+boto==2.49.0
+docopt==0.6.2
+Flask==1.1.2
+ipython==8.4.0
+nose==1.3.7
+peewee==3.15.1
+pyflakes==2.3.1
+requests==2.28.1
+SQLAlchemy==1.4.32
+ujson==5.1.0