diff --git a/.github/workflows/scriptcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/scriptcheck.yml
index 8e6d4859157..307310616bc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scriptcheck.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scriptcheck.yml
@@ -143,10 +143,23 @@ jobs:
         env:
           PYTHONPATH: ./addons
 
-      - name: test htmlreport
+      - name: test htmlreport (standalone)
         run: |
-          htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
-          cd htmlreport
+          test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
+          cd test/tools/htmlreport
+          ./check.sh
+      # Python 3.5 and 3.6 are excluded as they are not supported by setuptools-scm package for getting
+      # package version
+      - name: test htmlreport (pip)
+        if: matrix.python-version != '3.5' && matrix.python-version != '3.6'
+        run: |
+          python -m venv venv
+          source venv/bin/activate
+          python -m pip install -U pip
+          pip install ./htmlreport/
+          which cppcheck-htmlreport
+          PIP_PACKAGE_TEST=1 test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
+          cd test/tools/htmlreport
           ./check.sh
 
       - name: test reduce
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8afdc9611b9..90a97ae5873 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -134,3 +134,11 @@ compile_commands.json
 /oss-fuzz/corpus
 /oss-fuzz/corpus_
 /oss-fuzz/samples
+
+# Python
+/.venv/
+/venv/
+**/*.egg-info/
+
+# cppcheck-htmlreport auto files
+/htmlreport/cppcheck_htmlreport/run.py
diff --git a/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport b/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
index 8a3686b0d65..411b03551d8 100755
--- a/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
+++ b/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ class CppCheckHandler(XmlContentHandler):
                 'info': attributes.get('info')
             })
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
+def main() -> None:
     # Configure all the options this little utility is using.
     parser = optparse.OptionParser()
     parser.add_option('--title', dest='title',
@@ -984,3 +984,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         stats_file.write(HTML_FOOTER % contentHandler.versionCppcheck)
 
     print("\nOpen '" + options.report_dir + "/index.html' to see the results.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/htmlreport/cppcheck_htmlreport/__init__.py b/htmlreport/cppcheck_htmlreport/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/htmlreport/setup.py b/htmlreport/setup.py
index ac790fbebc1..3e049181ce6 100755
--- a/htmlreport/setup.py
+++ b/htmlreport/setup.py
@@ -1,21 +1,31 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+import shutil
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
-from setuptools import setup
-
-with open('README.txt') as f:
+with open("README.txt") as f:
     readme = f.read()
 
+shutil.copy("cppcheck-htmlreport", "cppcheck_htmlreport/run.py")
+
 setup(
-    name="cppcheck",
-    description='Python script to parse the XML (version 2) output of ' +
-                'cppcheck and generate an HTML report using Pygments for syntax ' +
-                'highlighting.',
+    name="cppcheck-htmlreport",
+    description=(
+        "Python script to parse the XML (version 2) output of "
+        "cppcheck and generate an HTML report using Pygments for syntax "
+        "highlighting."
+    ),
     long_description=readme,
-    author='Henrik Nilsson',
-    url='https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck',
-    license='GPL',
-    scripts=[
-        "cppcheck-htmlreport",
-    ],
-    install_requires=['Pygments']
+    author="Cppcheck Team",
+    url="https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck",
+    license="GPL",
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=("tests", "docs")),
+    use_scm_version={"root": ".."},
+    entry_points={
+        "console_scripts": [
+            "cppcheck-htmlreport = cppcheck_htmlreport:run.main",
+        ]
+    },
+    install_requires=["Pygments"],
+    # Required by setuptools-scm 7.0 for Python 3.7+
+    setup_requires=["setuptools>=60", "setuptools-scm>=7.0"],
 )
diff --git a/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt b/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ec3130c099f..00000000000
--- a/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-variableScope:../samples/memleak/good.c
-*:../samples/resourceLeak/notexisting.c*
-uninitstring:*
diff --git a/htmlreport/tox.ini b/htmlreport/tox.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 502ca70c110..00000000000
--- a/htmlreport/tox.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-[tox]
-envlist=py26,py27,py32,pypy
-
-[testenv]
-commands=
-    python test_htmlreport.py
-deps=pygments
-
-[testenv:py26]
-deps=
-    unittest2
-    pygments
diff --git a/htmlreport/check.sh b/test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh
similarity index 54%
rename from htmlreport/check.sh
rename to test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh
index a4515ec0690..dc9d9970cd6 100755
--- a/htmlreport/check.sh
+++ b/test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ if [ -z "$PYTHON" ]; then
     PYTHON=python
 fi
 
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})"
+ABSOLUTE_SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- ${SCRIPT_DIR} ; pwd -P)"
+PROJECT_ROOT_DIR="$(cd -- ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../../../ ; pwd -P)"
 REPORT_DIR=$(mktemp -d -t htmlreport-XXXXXXXXXX)
 INDEX_HTML="$REPORT_DIR/index.html"
 STATS_HTML="$REPORT_DIR/stats.html"
@@ -33,42 +36,42 @@ GUI_TEST_XML="$REPORT_DIR/gui_test.xml"
 ERRORLIST_XML="$REPORT_DIR/errorlist.xml"
 UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML="$REPORT_DIR/unmatchedSuppr.xml"
 
-$PYTHON cppcheck-htmlreport --file ../gui/test/data/xmlfiles/xmlreport_v2.xml --title "xml2 test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR" --source-dir ../test/
+$PYTHON ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/gui/test/data/xmlfiles/xmlreport_v2.xml --title "xml2 test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR" --source-dir ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/test/
 echo -e "\n"
 # Check HTML syntax
 validate_html "$INDEX_HTML"
 validate_html "$STATS_HTML"
 
 
-../cppcheck ../samples --enable=all --inconclusive --xml-version=2 2> "$GUI_TEST_XML"
+${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/cppcheck ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/samples --enable=all --inconclusive --xml-version=2 2> "$GUI_TEST_XML"
 xmllint --noout "$GUI_TEST_XML"
-$PYTHON cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$GUI_TEST_XML" --title "xml2 + inconclusive test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
+$PYTHON ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$GUI_TEST_XML" --title "xml2 + inconclusive test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
 echo ""
 # Check HTML syntax
 validate_html "$INDEX_HTML"
 validate_html "$STATS_HTML"
 
 
-../cppcheck ../samples --enable=all --inconclusive --verbose --xml-version=2 2> "$GUI_TEST_XML"
+${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/cppcheck ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/samples --enable=all --inconclusive --verbose --xml-version=2 2> "$GUI_TEST_XML"
 xmllint --noout "$GUI_TEST_XML"
-$PYTHON cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$GUI_TEST_XML" --title "xml2 + inconclusive + verbose test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
+$PYTHON ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$GUI_TEST_XML" --title "xml2 + inconclusive + verbose test" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
 echo -e "\n"
 # Check HTML syntax
 validate_html "$INDEX_HTML"
 validate_html "$STATS_HTML"
 
 
-../cppcheck --errorlist --inconclusive --xml-version=2 > "$ERRORLIST_XML"
+${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/cppcheck --errorlist --inconclusive --xml-version=2 > "$ERRORLIST_XML"
 xmllint --noout "$ERRORLIST_XML"
-$PYTHON cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$ERRORLIST_XML" --title "errorlist" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
+$PYTHON ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$ERRORLIST_XML" --title "errorlist" --report-dir "$REPORT_DIR"
 # Check HTML syntax
 validate_html "$INDEX_HTML"
 validate_html "$STATS_HTML"
 
 
-../cppcheck ../samples/memleak/good.c ../samples/resourceLeak/good.c  --xml-version=2 --enable=information --suppressions-list=test_suppressions.txt --xml 2> "$UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML"
+${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/cppcheck ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/samples/memleak/good.c ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/samples/resourceLeak/good.c  --xml-version=2 --enable=information --suppressions-list="${ABSOLUTE_SCRIPT_DIR}/test_suppressions.txt" --xml 2> "$UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML"
 xmllint --noout "$UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML"
-$PYTHON cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML" --title "unmatched Suppressions" --report-dir="$REPORT_DIR"
+$PYTHON ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file "$UNMATCHEDSUPPR_XML" --title "unmatched Suppressions" --report-dir="$REPORT_DIR"
 grep "unmatchedSuppression<.*>information<.*>Unmatched suppression: variableScope*<" "$INDEX_HTML"
 grep ">unmatchedSuppression</.*>information<.*>Unmatched suppression: uninitstring<" "$INDEX_HTML"
 grep "notexisting" "$INDEX_HTML"
diff --git a/htmlreport/example.cc b/test/tools/htmlreport/example.cc
similarity index 100%
rename from htmlreport/example.cc
rename to test/tools/htmlreport/example.cc
diff --git a/htmlreport/example.xml b/test/tools/htmlreport/example.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from htmlreport/example.xml
rename to test/tools/htmlreport/example.xml
diff --git a/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
similarity index 86%
rename from htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
rename to test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
index 4fd6cf6c256..4b40650cf09 100755
--- a/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
+++ b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
@@ -14,11 +14,15 @@
 else:
     import unittest
 
-ROOT_DIR = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))[0]
+TEST_TOOLS_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+ROOT_DIR = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(TEST_TOOLS_DIR)))[0]
+HTMLREPORT_DIR = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'htmlreport')
 CPPCHECK_BIN = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'cppcheck')
 
-HTML_REPORT_BIN = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
-                               'cppcheck-htmlreport')
+if os.getenv("PIP_PACKAGE_TEST") is not None:
+    HTML_REPORT_BIN = ['cppcheck-htmlreport']
+else:
+    HTML_REPORT_BIN = [sys.executable, os.path.join(HTMLREPORT_DIR, 'cppcheck-htmlreport')]
 
 
 class TestHTMLReport(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ def checkReportNoError(self, xml_version):
 
     def testMissingInclude(self):
         with runCheck(
-            xml_filename=os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'htmlreport', 'example.xml'),
+            xml_filename=os.path.join(TEST_TOOLS_DIR, 'example.xml'),
         ) as (report, output_directory):
             self.assertIn('<html', report)
 
@@ -98,10 +102,10 @@ def runCheck(source_filename=None, xml_version='1', xml_filename=None):
     assert os.path.exists(xml_filename)
 
     subprocess.check_call(
-        [sys.executable, HTML_REPORT_BIN,
+        [*HTML_REPORT_BIN,
          '--file=' + os.path.realpath(xml_filename),
          '--report-dir=' + os.path.realpath(output_directory)],
-        cwd=os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'htmlreport'))
+        cwd=TEST_TOOLS_DIR)
 
     with open(os.path.join(output_directory, 'index.html')) as index_file:
         index_contents = index_file.read()
diff --git a/test/tools/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eb580524e33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tools/htmlreport/test_suppressions.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+variableScope:*/samples/memleak/good.c
+*:*/samples/resourceLeak/notexisting.c*
+uninitstring:*