diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8ee3063..e371420 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,3 +35,6 @@ nosetests.xml
 .project
 .pydevproject
 *.swp
+
+.idea
+.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ece2991
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+sqlalchemy==1.*
+numpy
+pandas
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6e2b3ce..1c5d9cc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 from distutils.core import setup
 from setuptools import find_packages
 
+with open("requirements.txt", "r") as f:
+    requirements = f.read().splitlines()
+
 setup(
     name="pandasql",
     version="0.7.3",
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@
     package_data={"pandasql": ["data/*.csv"]},
     description="sqldf for pandas",
     long_description=open("README.rst").read(),
-    install_requires=['numpy', 'pandas', 'sqlalchemy'],
+    install_requires=requirements,
     classifiers=[
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     ],