diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc23b05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+name: Publish to PyPI
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    
+    - name: Install uv
+      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
+    
+    - name: Build package
+      run: uv build
+    
+    - name: Upload artifacts
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+      with:
+        name: python-package-distributions
+        path: dist/
+    
+  publish:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: pypi
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write  # Required for trusted publishing
+    
+    steps:
+    - name: Download artifacts
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+      with:
+        name: python-package-distributions
+        path: dist/
+    
+    - name: Publish package to PyPI
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-smoke-test.yml b/.github/workflows/python-smoke-test.yml
index a3da3e2..b89ec84 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-smoke-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-smoke-test.yml
@@ -10,22 +10,34 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
-  build:
-
+  # Live smoke test against the Freesound API on every supported Python version.
+  # The API is rate limited (60 requests/minute, 2000/day per key, see
+  # https://freesound.org/docs/api/) and one run of examples.py makes ~20 requests,
+  # so the runs are serialized and spaced out.
+  smoke-test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
+    strategy:
+      max-parallel: 1
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
+
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - name: Install uv and set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
       with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install dependencies
+      run: uv sync
+    - name: Check the package imports and builds
       run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install -e .
+        uv run python -c "import freesound"
+        uv build
+    - name: Wait to stay under the API rate limit
+      run: sleep 30
     - name: Run smoke test
       env:
         FREESOUND_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.FREESOUND_API_KEY }}
       run: |
-        python examples.py
+        uv run python examples.py
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 17a8d54..f110c92 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,198 @@
 build
 *.pyc
 *.bak
+
+# General
+.DS_Store
+.AppleDouble
+.LSOverride
+
+# Icon must end with two \r
+Icon
+
+
+# Thumbnails
+._*
+
+# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
+.DocumentRevisions-V100
+.fseventsd
+.Spotlight-V100
+.TemporaryItems
+.Trashes
+.VolumeIcon.icns
+.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
+
+# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
+.AppleDB
+.AppleDesktop
+Network Trash Folder
+Temporary Items
+.apdisk
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# .python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/#use-with-ide
+.pdm.toml
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# uv
+uv.lock
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/
+
+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+.idea/
+
+
+tmp/
diff --git a/.python-version b/.python-version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24ee5b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.python-version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.13
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 976f3c6..f439e95 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -29,18 +29,25 @@ for sound in results:
 ```
 
 ## Installation
-1) clone or download
 
-2) run:
+The easiest way to install is using pip:
+
 ```
-python setup.py install
+pip install freesound
 ```
 
-Alternatively you should also be able to install directly from GitHub with:
+Alternatively, you can install directly from GitHub:
+
 ```
 pip install git+https://github.com/MTG/freesound-python
 ```
 
+Or clone the repository and install manually:
+
+```
+python -m pip install .
+```
+
 ## Advanced usage
 
 ### Modifying the requests' session:
diff --git a/examples.py b/examples.py
index f4bd961..8581062 100644
--- a/examples.py
+++ b/examples.py
@@ -25,12 +25,11 @@
 # Get sound info example specifying some request parameters
 print("Sound info specifying some request parameters:")
 print("-----------")
-sound = freesound_client.get_sound(
-    6, fields="id,name,username,duration,spectral_centroid")
+sound = freesound_client.get_sound(6, fields="id,name,username,duration,spectral_centroid")
 print("Getting sound:", sound.name)
 print("Username:", sound.username)
 print("Duration:", str(sound.duration), "(s)")
-print("Spectral centroid:",str(sound.spectral_centroid), "(Hz)")
+print("Spectral centroid:", str(sound.spectral_centroid), "(Hz)")
 print()
 
 # Get sound analysis example
@@ -80,15 +79,16 @@
 
 print("Num results:", results_pager.count)
 for sound in results_pager:
-    print("\t-", sound.name, "by", sound.username, "with spectral centroid of", sound.spectral_centroid, "Hz and pitch of", sound.pitch, "Hz")
+    print(
+        "\t-", sound.name, "by", sound.username, "with spectral centroid of", sound.spectral_centroid,
+        "Hz and pitch of", sound.pitch, "Hz"
+    )
 print()
 
 # We can use the search endpoint for a similarity search which also filters results
 print("Searching for similar sounds and filtering by a descriptor value:")
 print("---------------")
-results_pager = freesound_client.search(
-    page_size=10, fields="name,username", similar_to=6, filter="pitch:[110 TO 180]"
-)
+results_pager = freesound_client.search(page_size=10, fields="name,username", similar_to=6, filter="pitch:[110 TO 180]")
 for similar_sound in results_pager:
     print("\t-", similar_sound.name, "by", similar_sound.username)
 print()
@@ -97,7 +97,20 @@
 # Note that "similarity_space" must match with the similarity space used to extract the target vector
 print("Searching for sounds similar to a target vector:")
 print("---------------")
-target_vector = [0.84835537,-0.06019006,0.35139768,-0.01221892,-0.23172645,-0.03798686,-0.03869437,0.02199453,-0.10143687,-0.03342770,0.05464298,-0.02654354,0.05424048,0.04912830,0.01449411,-0.02995046,0.04584143,0.03731462,0.06914231,-0.00702387,-0.02202889,0.01644059,-0.00153376,0.11042101,0.05432773,0.05736105,-0.03779107,-0.00909068,-0.08996461,-0.04300615,0.05610843,0.02214170,-0.02155820,0.05158299,-0.00717155,-0.04345755,-0.00519616,0.02887811,-0.02205723,0.01658933,0.02485796,-0.06228176,0.03574570,-0.04556302,-0.00497004,0.00300936,-0.01974736,-0.01391953,-0.02898939,0.01041939,-0.02836645,0.00853050,-0.03129587,0.00454572,0.00898315,-0.01371797,-0.00918297,-0.01049032,0.02800968,-0.04248178,0.02648444,-0.01034762,0.02105908,-0.01137279,0.02845560,-0.04284714,0.00797986,0.00973879,-0.00850114,-0.01093731,-0.00629640,-0.01862817,0.00829806,0.01137537,0.02601988,0.03015542,-0.01091145,0.00547907,-0.00426657,0.01001693,0.00793383,0.00082211,-0.02848534,-0.00823537,0.01392606,-0.02012341,-0.00788319,0.02797560,-0.01470957,-0.01917517,-0.01177181,0.00952904,-0.00223396,-0.01586017,-0.00566903,0.01150901,-0.00361810,-0.00257769,-0.01509761,0.00552032]
+target_vector = [
+    0.84835537, -0.06019006, 0.35139768, -0.01221892, -0.23172645, -0.03798686, -0.03869437, 0.02199453, -0.10143687,
+    -0.03342770, 0.05464298, -0.02654354, 0.05424048, 0.04912830, 0.01449411, -0.02995046, 0.04584143, 0.03731462,
+    0.06914231, -0.00702387, -0.02202889, 0.01644059, -0.00153376, 0.11042101, 0.05432773, 0.05736105, -0.03779107,
+    -0.00909068, -0.08996461, -0.04300615, 0.05610843, 0.02214170, -0.02155820, 0.05158299, -0.00717155, -0.04345755,
+    -0.00519616, 0.02887811, -0.02205723, 0.01658933, 0.02485796, -0.06228176, 0.03574570, -0.04556302, -0.00497004,
+    0.00300936, -0.01974736, -0.01391953, -0.02898939, 0.01041939, -0.02836645, 0.00853050, -0.03129587, 0.00454572,
+    0.00898315, -0.01371797, -0.00918297, -0.01049032, 0.02800968, -0.04248178, 0.02648444, -0.01034762, 0.02105908,
+    -0.01137279, 0.02845560, -0.04284714, 0.00797986, 0.00973879, -0.00850114, -0.01093731, -0.00629640, -0.01862817,
+    0.00829806, 0.01137537, 0.02601988, 0.03015542, -0.01091145, 0.00547907, -0.00426657, 0.01001693, 0.00793383,
+    0.00082211, -0.02848534, -0.00823537, 0.01392606, -0.02012341, -0.00788319, 0.02797560, -0.01470957, -0.01917517,
+    -0.01177181, 0.00952904, -0.00223396, -0.01586017, -0.00566903, 0.01150901, -0.00361810, -0.00257769, -0.01509761,
+    0.00552032
+]
 results_pager = freesound_client.search(
     page_size=10, fields="name,username", similar_to=target_vector, similarity_space="freesound_classic"
 )
@@ -108,10 +121,7 @@
 # Search sounds and sort them by distance to a given audio descriptors target
 print("Sort sounds by distance to audio descriptors target:")
 print("---------------")
-results_pager = freesound_client.search(
-    filter="pitch_var:[* TO 20]",
-    sort='pitch_salience:1.0,pitch:440'
-)
+results_pager = freesound_client.search(filter="pitch_var:[* TO 20]", sort='pitch_salience:1.0,pitch:440')
 
 for sound in results_pager:
     print("\t-", sound.name, "by", sound.username, "distance:", sound.distance_to_target)
@@ -138,9 +148,7 @@
 print("-----------")
 user = freesound_client.get_user("Headphaze")
 print("User name:", user.username)
-results_pager = user.get_sounds(
-    page_size=10, fields="name,username,samplerate,duration" 
-)
+results_pager = user.get_sounds(page_size=10, fields="name,username,samplerate,duration")
 
 print("Num results:", results_pager.count)
 print("\t----- PAGE 1 -----")
@@ -179,9 +187,7 @@
 print("-----------")
 pack = freesound_client.get_pack(3524)
 print("Pack name:", pack.name)
-results_pager = pack.get_sounds(
-    page_size=5, fields="id,name,username,duration,spectral_flatness"
-)
+results_pager = pack.get_sounds(page_size=5, fields="id,name,username,duration,spectral_flatness")
 print("Num results:", results_pager.count)
 print("\t----- PAGE 1 -----")
 for sound in results_pager:
diff --git a/freesound.py b/freesound.py
index 17eace5..e39d0bb 100644
--- a/freesound.py
+++ b/freesound.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def search(self, **params):
                 vector = params['similar_to']
                 vector_str = ','.join(['{0:.5f}'.format(v) for v in vector])
                 params['similar_to'] = '[' + vector_str + ']'
-            
+
         uri = URIS.uri(URIS.SEARCH)
         return FSRequest.request(uri, params, self, Pager)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5bf0d9b..d071598 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,45 @@
+[project]
+name = "freesound"
+version = "1.1"
+description = "A Python client for the Freesound APIv2"
+readme = "Readme.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = ["COPYING.txt"]
+dependencies = [
+    "requests>=2.27,<3.0",
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "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",
+    "Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/MTG/freesound-python"
+Repository = "https://github.com/MTG/freesound-python.git"
+Issues = "https://github.com/MTG/freesound-python/issues"
+Documentation = "https://freesound.org/docs/api/"
+
+[dependency-groups]
+dev = [
+    "yapf",
+]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["hatchling >= 1.27"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[tool.hatch.build]
+include = ["freesound.py"]
+
 [tool.yapf]
 based_on_style = "google"
 spaces_before_comment = 4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b2f6273..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-from distutils.core import setup
-
-setup(
-    name="freesound-python",
-    version="1.1",
-    py_modules=["freesound"],
-    install_requires=["requests<3.0,>2.27"],
-    python_requires=">=3.6",
-)