diff --git a/Cargo.toml.template b/Cargo.toml.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e81dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.toml.template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[package]
+name = "@@PACKAGE@@"
+version = "@@VERSION@@"
+edition = "2018"
+description = "@@DESCRIPTION@@"
+authors = ["Erik Hollensbe <erik.hollensbe@zerotier.com>", "Adam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com>"]
+license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+
+[dependencies]
+serde = "^1.0"
+serde_derive = "^1.0"
+serde_json = "^1.0"
+url = "^2.2"
+[dependencies.reqwest]
+version = "^0.11"
+features = ["json", "multipart"]
+
+[dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ae77d6f..5ad9d59 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-generate: central service
-
 central:
-	bash generate.sh central zerotier-central-api
+	@DESCRIPTION="OpenAPI bindings to the ZeroTier Central (https:\/\/my.zerotier.com) service" bash generate.sh central zerotier-central-api
 
 service:
-	bash generate.sh service zerotier-one-api
+	@DESCRIPTION="OpenAPI bindings to the ZeroTierOne JSON API" bash generate.sh service zerotier-one-api
 
-.PHONY: generate central service
+.PHONY: central service
diff --git a/generate.sh b/generate.sh
index 4a77a25..ae18529 100644
--- a/generate.sh
+++ b/generate.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -x -euo pipefail
+set -eo pipefail
 
 if [ "x$1" = "x" ]
 then
@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ then
   exit 1
 fi
 
+if [ "x$VERSION" = "x" ]
+then
+  echo "Please supply a version in VERSION= in plain semver format (e.g., 1.2.3)"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "x$DESCRIPTION" = "x" ]
+then
+  echo "Please supply a package description in DESCRIPTION="
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 PACKAGE=$1
 PREFIX=$2
 
@@ -22,4 +34,6 @@ docker run --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v ${PWD}/${PREFIX}:/swagger openapitools/o
   -g rust \
   -o /swagger
 
-grep -v default-features ${PREFIX}/Cargo.toml > tmp && mv tmp ${PREFIX}/Cargo.toml
+sed -e "s/@@PACKAGE@@/${PREFIX}/g" Cargo.toml.template | \
+  sed -e "s/@@VERSION@@/${VERSION}/g" | \
+  sed -e "s/@@DESCRIPTION@@/${DESCRIPTION}/g" > ${PREFIX}/Cargo.toml