pip install youtrack-scripts error

I've been following the instructions here to import  issues from GItHub:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/incloud/import-from-github.html

But I am getting following error when running `pip install youtrack-scripts`:

[neo@nixos:~]$ pip install youtrack-scripts
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
Collecting youtrack-scripts
 Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/39/a6/5d444c6528513b58929b620c7ac0edd16103a395af77893756bcc2b02ac2/youtrack-scripts-0.1.34.tar.gz (65kB)
   100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 798kB/s  
   Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   ImportError: No module named setuptools
    
   ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-hz48nJ/youtrack-scripts/
You are using pip version 19.0.3, however version 19.2.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.