diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9433c60..1704f35 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -132,3 +132,4 @@ dmypy.json
 .DS_Store
 Vault/
 /tests/apitests_output/
+src/drawbot_skia/_version.py
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ee1556f..8f9dfc4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="drawbot-skia",
-    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    use_scm_version={"write_to": "src/drawbot_skia/_version.py"},
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': ['drawbot=drawbot_skia.__main__:main'],
     },
@@ -17,4 +17,8 @@
         "python-bidi",
         "unicodedata2",
     ],
+    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
+    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    classifiers=[
+    ],
 )
diff --git a/src/drawbot_skia/__init__.py b/src/drawbot_skia/__init__.py
index e69de29..ecedf43 100644
--- a/src/drawbot_skia/__init__.py
+++ b/src/drawbot_skia/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+try:
+    from ._version import version as __version__
+except ImportError:
+    __version__ = "0.0.0+unknown"