diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eeca378..b6f142c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@ build
 debian
 deb_dist
 dist
+node_modules
 *.egg-info
 *.pyc
+*.tgz
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f93b05..65e1946 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Below are some example outputs for a number of famous open source projects. All
 ### The Team
   * Adam Waldenberg, Lead maintainer and Swedish translation
   * Agustín Cañas, Spanish translation
+  * Bart van Andel, npm package maintainer
   * Bill Wang, Chinese translation
   * Christian Kastner, Debian package maintainer
   * Jiwon Kim, Korean translation
@@ -49,5 +50,7 @@ Below are some example outputs for a number of famous open source projects. All
 ### Packages
 The Debian packages offered with releases of gitinspector are unofficial and very simple packages generated with [stdeb](https://github.com/astraw/stdeb). Christian Kastner is maintaining the official Debian packages. You can check the current status on the [Debian Package Tracker](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gitinspector).  Consequently, there are official packages for many Debian based distributions installable via *apt-get*.
 
+An [npm](https://npmjs.com) package is provided for convenience as well. To install it globally, execute `npm i -g gitinspector`.
+
 ### License
 gitinspector is licensed under the *GNU GPL v3*. The gitinspector logo is partly based on the git logo; based on the work of Jason Long. The logo is licensed under the *Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License*.
diff --git a/gitinspector.js b/gitinspector.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b27ac00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitinspector.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+var PythonShell = require('python-shell');
+
+var options = {
+    // The main python script is in the same directory as this file
+    scriptPath: __dirname,
+    
+    // Get command line arguments, skipping the default node args:
+    // arg0 == node executable, arg1 == this file
+    args: process.argv.slice(2)
+};
+
+
+// Set encoding used by stdin etc manually. Without this, gitinspector may fail to run.
+process.env.PYTHONIOENCODING = 'utf8';
+
+// Start inspector
+var inspector = new PythonShell('gitinspector.py', options);
+
+// Handle stdout
+inspector.on('message', function(message) {
+    console.log(message);
+});
+
+// Let the inspector run, catching any error at the end
+inspector.end(function (err) {
+    if (err) {
+        throw err;
+    }
+});
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbd7efc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+{
+  "name": "gitinspector",
+  "version": "0.5.0-dev",
+  "description": "Gitinspector is a statistical analysis tool for git repositories. The default analysis shows general statistics per author, which can be complemented with a timeline analysis that shows the workload and activity of each author. Under normal operation, it filters the results to only show statistics about a number of given extensions and by default only includes source files in the statistical analysis.",
+  "main": "gitinspector.py",
+  "directories": {
+    "doc": "docs",
+    "test": "tests"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "clean": "rimraf **/*.pyc",
+    "prepublish": "npm run clean",
+    "release": "with-package git commit -am pkg.version && with-package git tag pkg.version && git push && npm publish && git push --tags",
+    "release:beta": "npm run release && npm run tag:beta",
+    "tag:beta": "with-package npm dist-tag add pkg.name@pkg.version beta",
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "bin": {
+    "gitinspector": "gitinspector.py"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "git",
+    "statistics",
+    "stats"
+  ],
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Adam Waldenberg",
+    "email": "adam.waldenberg@ejwa.se",
+    "url": "https://github.com/adam-waldenberg"
+  },
+  "contributors": [
+    "Agustín Cañas",
+    "Bart van Andel <bavanandel@gmail.com>",
+    "Bill Wang",
+    "Christian Kastner",
+    "Jiwon Kim",
+    "Kamila Chyla",
+    "Luca Motta",
+    "Philipp Nowak",
+    "Sergei Lomakov",
+    "Yannick Moy"
+  ],
+  "license": "GPL-3.0",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector#readme",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "rimraf": "^2.5.4",
+    "with-package": "^0.2.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "python-shell": "^0.4.0"
+  }
+}