diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8a9276d0205fef49d59b7c41b70d21312b074642..a538e363b3f570506b6732a583de5cd139a0e391 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ def setup_package():
         package_dir={'': 'src'},
         install_requires=['lxml>=4.6.3',
                           "requests[socks]>=2.26",
+                          "setuptools",
                           "python-dateutil>=2.8.2",
                           'PyYAML>=5.4.1',
                           'future',