diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82fed252..eb1a541b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 **/*.DS_STORE
 # Python precompiled files
 *.pyc
+# Builds dir
+dist/
 # PyCharm config files
 .idea/
 # PyCharm Virtual Environment
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..03107489
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+    long_description = fh.read()
+
+setup(
+    name='miditok',
+    author='Nathan Fradet',
+    url='https://github.com/Natooz/MidiTok',
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=("tests",)),
+    version='0.0.1',
+    license='MIT',
+    description='A convenient MIDI tokenizer for Deep Learning networks, with multiple encoding strategies',
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    keywords=[
+        'artificial intelligence',
+        'deep learning',
+        'transformer',
+        'midi',
+        'tokenization',
+        'music',
+        'mir'
+    ],
+    install_requires=[
+        'numpy>=1.21',
+        'miditoolkit>=0.1.14'
+    ],
+    classifiers=[
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence',
+        'Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent"
+    ],
+)