diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7517d61..e7da608 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,25 +15,28 @@ version = {"__file__": verfile}
 with open(verfile, "r") as fp:
     exec(fp.read(), version)
 
+
 ############### setup ###############
 
 build_version = "AUTOTRANSCRIPT_BUILD" in os.environ
 
-setup(
-    name=module_name,
-    version=version["get_version"](build_version),
-    packages=find_packages(),
-    python_requires="~=3.9",
-    readme="README.md",
-    install_requires = [str(r) for r in pkg_resources.parse_requirements(
-            open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt"))
-        )
-    ],
-    url= github_url,
-    license='',
-    author='Jacob Schmieder',
-    author_email='',
-    description='Transcription tool for audio files based on Whisper and Pyannote',
-    entry_points={'console_scripts':
-        ['autotranscript = autotranscript.autotranscript:cli']}
-)
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    setup(
+        name=module_name,
+        version=version["get_version"](build_version),
+        packages=find_packages(),
+        python_requires="~=3.9",
+        readme="README.md",
+        install_requires = [str(r) for r in pkg_resources.parse_requirements(
+                open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt"))
+            )
+        ],
+        url= github_url,
+        license='',
+        author='Jacob Schmieder',
+        author_email='',
+        description='Transcription tool for audio files based on Whisper and Pyannote',
+        entry_points={'console_scripts':
+            ['autotranscript = autotranscript.autotranscript:cli']}
+    )