diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f11138e..8a62014 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -69,3 +69,4 @@ app = ["scraibe-webui"]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.extend-per-file-ignores]
 "__init__.py" = ["E402","F403"]
+"scraibe/misc.py" = ["E722"]
diff --git a/scraibe/_version.py b/scraibe/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ab50aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scraibe/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ # set __version__ attribute
+ 
+__version__ = "0.0.0"
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