diff --git a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/client.py b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/client.py
index b5971496aace..b95ce1f00644 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/client.py
+++ b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/client.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+import argparse
 import warnings
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-import click
 import flwr as fl
 from flwr_datasets import FederatedDataset
 import torch
@@ -69,16 +69,10 @@ def test(net, testloader):
     return loss, accuracy
 
 
-@click.command()
-@click.option(
-    "--node-id",
-    type=click.Choice(["0", "1", "2"]),
-    help="Partition of the dataset, which is divided into 3 iid partitions created artificially",
-)
 def load_data(node_id):
     """Load partition CIFAR10 data."""
     fds = FederatedDataset(dataset="cifar10", partitioners={"train": 3})
-    partition = fds.load_partition(int(node_id), "train")
+    partition = fds.load_partition(node_id)
     # Divide data on each node: 80% train, 20% test
     partition_train_test = partition.train_test_split(test_size=0.2)
     pytorch_transforms = Compose(
@@ -100,9 +94,15 @@ def apply_transforms(batch):
 # 2. Federation of the pipeline with Flower
 # #############################################################################
 
+# Get node id
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Flower")
+parser.add_argument("--node-id", choices=[0, 1, 2], type=int, help="Partition of the "
+"dataset, which is divided into 3 iid partitions created artificially.")
+node_id = parser.parse_args().node_id
+
 # Load model and data (simple CNN, CIFAR-10)
 net = Net().to(DEVICE)
-trainloader, testloader = load_data(standalone_mode=False)
+trainloader, testloader = load_data(node_id=node_id)
 
 
 # Define Flower client
diff --git a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/pyproject.toml b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/pyproject.toml
index e7ca9738c9e4..582d45093da5 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,4 +15,3 @@ flwr-datasets = {extras = ["vision"], version = ">=0.0.2,<1.0.0" }
 torch = "2.1.1"
 torchvision = "0.16.1"
 tqdm = "4.65.0"
-click = "8.1.7"
diff --git a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/requirements.txt b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/requirements.txt
index 5dc153d117e5..fc1f90777ad1 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/quickstart-pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@ flwr-datasets>[vision]=0.0.2, <1.0.0
 torch==2.1.1
 torchvision==0.16.1
 tqdm==4.65.0
-click==8.1.7