diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+++ b/MANIFEST.in
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+include LICENSE
+include requirements.txt
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "packaging",
+    "setuptools",
+    "aiohttp",
+]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+import io
+import os
+import re
+from typing import List
+
+import setuptools
+
+SETUP_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+
+def get_path(*filepath) -> str:
+    return os.path.join(SETUP_DIR, *filepath)
+
+
+def find_version(filepath: str):
+    """Extract version information from the given filepath.
+
+    Adapted from https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/0b190ee1160eeca9796bc091e07eaebf4c85b511/python/setup.py
+    """
+    with open(filepath) as fp:
+        version_match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]", fp.read(), re.M)
+        if version_match:
+            return version_match.group(1)
+        raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string.")
+
+
+def read_readme() -> str:
+    """Read the README file."""
+    return io.open(get_path("README.md"), "r", encoding="utf-8").read()
+
+
+def get_requirements() -> List[str]:
+    """Get Python package dependencies from requirements.txt."""
+    with open(get_path("requirements.txt")) as f:
+        requirements = f.read().strip().split("\n")
+    return requirements
+
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    name="vllm_client",
+    version=find_version(get_path("vllm_client", "__init__.py")),
+    author="vLLM Team",
+    license="Apache 2.0",
+    description=("Client for the vLLM API with minimal dependencies"),
+    long_description=read_readme(),
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    url="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm",
+    project_urls={
+        "Homepage": "https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm",
+        "Documentation": "https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/",
+    },
+    classifiers=[
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
+        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+    ],
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=("tests",)),
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    install_requires=get_requirements()
+)