diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3fde94b..94ccaf0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ description = "A tool to rapidly fetch fetch MLST profiles given sequences for v
 [project.scripts]
 automlst = "automlst.cli.program:run"
 
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+
 [tool.pyright]
 extraPaths = ["src"]
 exclude = [
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 590e90c..be304cd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ biopython
 pytest
 pytest-asyncio
 build
-twine
\ No newline at end of file
+twine
+setuptools_scm
\ No newline at end of file