diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e69de29..87acfa6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name='structured-query-engine',
+    version='0.1.0',
+    description='Structured Query Engine is an Elasticsearch like search engine which supports real time indexing',
+    author='Amanpreet Singh, Karthik Venkatesan, Simranjyot Singh Gill',
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    install_requires=[
+        'tornado',
+        'nltk',
+        'requests',
+        'python-snappy',
+    ],
+    python_requires='>=3.5',
+)