diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 029519e0..06f5ffc1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 __pycache__/
-*.py[cod]
\ No newline at end of file
+*.py[cod]
+build/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f73fd344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
+
+try:
+    from setuptools import setup
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(
+    name="gallery_dl",
+    version="0.1",
+    description="gallery- and image downloader",
+    long_description="download image galleries from several image hosting platforms",
+    url="https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl",
+    author="Mike Fährmann",
+    author_email="mike_faehrmann@web.de",
+    packages=[
+        "gallery_dl",
+        "gallery_dl.extractor",
+        "gallery_dl.downloader",
+    ],
+    classifiers=[
+        "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+        "Environment :: Console",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+        "Topic :: Multimedia",
+        "Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics",
+    ],
+)