diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fccf10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+include *.md
+include LICENSE
+prune .git
+prune dist
+prune build
diff --git a/activitypub/__init__.py b/activitypub/__init__.py
index 3f1df00..91f3aae 100644
--- a/activitypub/__init__.py
+++ b/activitypub/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 from .manager import Manager
 from .classes import *
+from ._version import __version__, VERSION
diff --git a/activitypub/_version.py b/activitypub/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5c497b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activitypub/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+__version__ = "0.0.1"
+VERSION = tuple([(int(v) if v.isdigit() else v)
+                 for v in __version__.split(".")])
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..498ec14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[metadata]
+license_file = LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a41316e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import io
+import sys
+try:
+    import pypandoc
+except:
+    pypandoc = None
+
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+
+with io.open('activitypub/_version.py', encoding='utf-8') as fid:
+    for line in fid:
+        if line.startswith('__version__'):
+            version = line.strip().split()[-1][1:-1]
+            break
+
+with io.open('README.md', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
+    long_desc = fp.read()
+    if pypandoc is not None:
+        try:
+            long_desc = pypandoc.convert(long_desc, "rst", "markdown_github")
+        except:
+            pass
+
+
+setup(name='activitypub',
+      version=version,
+      description='A general Python ActivityPub library',
+      long_description=long_desc,
+      author='Douglas S. Blank',
+      author_email='doug.blank@gmail.com',
+      url='https://github.com/dsblank/activitypub',
+      install_requires=['pymongo'],
+      packages=find_packages(include=['activitypub', 'activitypub.*']),
+      include_data_files = True,
+      test_suite = 'nose.collector',
+      classifiers=[
+          'Framework :: IPython',
+          'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+      ]
+)