diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index ae7db51fa..4920dc0c3 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ include NEWS
 
 include scrapy/VERSION
 include scrapy/mime.types
+include scrapy/py.typed
 
 include codecov.yml
 include conftest.py
diff --git a/scrapy/py.typed b/scrapy/py.typed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb