diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5716ea68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+include cowrie.cfg.dist
+include *.md
+recursive-include data *
+recursive-include txtcmds *
+recursive-include honeyfs *
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4e9c7f2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup (
+    name             = "Cowrie",
+    version          = "1.0",
+    description      = "Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot.",
+    maintainer       = "Michel Oosterhof",
+    maintainer_email = "michel@oosterhof.net",
+    keywords         = "ssh telnet honeypot",
+    url              = "https://github.com/micheloosterhof/cowrie",
+    packages         = find_packages(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    package_data     = { '': ['*.md'] },
+    scripts          = ["bin/fsctl",
+                        "bin/asciinema",
+                        "bin/cowrie",
+                        "bin/createfs",
+                        "bin/playlog"],
+    install_requires = ["twisted>=17.1.0",
+                        "cryptography>=0.9.1",
+                        "configparser",
+                        "pyopenssl",
+                        "pyparsing",
+                        "packaging",
+                        "appdirs>=1.4.0",
+                        "python-pyasn1",
+                        "python-gmpy2",
+                        "python-mysqldb",
+                        "klein>=15.0.0",
+                        "treq>=15.0.0",
+                        "python-dateutil",
+                        "service_identity>=14.0.0"],
+    entry_points     = {'console_scripts':
+                        ['run-the-app = deployme:main']},
+
+    extras_require   = { 'csirtg': ["csirtgsdk>=0.0.0a17"],
+                         'dshield': ["requests"],
+                         'elasticsearch': ["pyes"],
+                         'mysql': ["mysqlclient"],
+                         'mongodb': ["pymongo"],
+                         'rethinkdblog': ["rethinkdb"],
+                         's3': ["botocore"],
+                         'slack': ["slackclient"],
+                         'splunklegacy': ["splunk-sdk"],
+                         'influxdb': ["influxdb"]}
+)
+