diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "scraperwiki"
+version = "0.5.1"
+description = "Local version of ScraperWiki libraries"
+authors = [
+  { name = "ScraperWiki Developers", email = "hello@scraperwiki.com" }
+]
+license = { text = "GPLv3+" }
+readme = "README.md"  # Assumes you have a README file
+urls = { Repository = "https://github.com/cantabular/scraperwiki-python" }
+classifiers = [
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+    "Programming Language :: SQL",
+    "Topic :: Database :: Front-Ends",
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "requests",
+    "six",
+    "sqlalchemy==1.4.54",
+    "alembic==1.17.2",
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]  # Or wherever your 'scraperwiki' package folder is located
+include = ["scraperwiki*"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
-# This file is part of Local Scraperlibs.
-
-import warnings
-import os
-from distutils.core import setup
-
-
-def has_external_dependency(name):
-    'Check that a non-Python dependency is installed.'
-    for directory in os.environ['PATH'].split(':'):
-        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(directory, name)):
-            return True
-    return False
-
-if not has_external_dependency('pdftohtml'):
-    warnings.warn(
-        'scraperwiki.pdftoxml requires pdftohtml, but pdftohtml was not found '
-        'in the PATH. If you wish to use this function, you probably need to '
-        'install pdftohtml.'
-    )
-
-config = dict(name='scraperwiki',
-              author='Francis Irving',
-              author_email='francis@sensiblecode.io',
-              description='Local version of ScraperWiki libraries',
-              url='https://github.com/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python',
-              classifiers=[
-              'Intended Audience :: Developers',
-              'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
-              'License :: OSI Approved :: '
-              'GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)',
-              'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
-              'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
-              'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
-              'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13',
-              'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14',
-              'Programming Language :: SQL',
-              'Topic :: Database :: Front-Ends',
-              ],
-              packages=['scraperwiki'],
-              version='0.5.1',
-              license='GPL',
-              )
-
-try:
-    from setuptools import setup
-    config['install_requires'] = ['requests', 'six',
-                                  'sqlalchemy==1.4.54', 'alembic==1.17.2'],
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
-setup(**config)