diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0bac0c12899b..757f698cca6f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,5 +5,7 @@ config.js
 config.py
 config.php
 dist/
+build/
+ccxt.egg-info/
 tmp/
 *.pyc
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a90abfa824d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Include the license file
+include LICENSE.txt
+
+# Include the package.json file
+include package.json
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diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c34b498b23ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[bdist_wheel]
+# This flag says that the code is written to work on both Python 2 and Python
+# 3. If at all possible, it is good practice to do this. If you cannot, you
+# will need to generate wheels for each Python version that you support.
+universal=1
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3434ad2c61ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+# To use a consistent encoding
+from codecs import open
+from os import path
+import json
+import sys
+
+here = path.abspath (path.dirname (__file__))
+
+# Get the long description from the README file
+with open (path.join (here, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
+
+# Get the version number and other params from package.json    
+with open (path.join (here, 'package.json'), encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
+    package = json.load (f)
+
+setup (
+
+    name = package['name'],
+    version = package['version'],
+    
+    description = package['description'],
+    long_description = long_description,
+    
+    url = package['homepage'],
+    
+    author = package['author']['name'],
+    author_email = package['author']['email'],
+    
+    license = package['license'],
+
+    classifiers = [
+        'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'Intended Audience :: Financial and Insurance Industry',
+        'Intended Audience :: Information Technology',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
+        'Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+        'Programming Language :: JavaScript',
+        'Programming Language :: PHP',
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Environment :: Console'
+    ],
+
+    keywords = package['keywords'],
+
+    packages = find_packages ()
+)
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