diff --git a/qgrid/grid.py b/qgrid/grid.py
index 7e505c30..b815eb1e 100644
--- a/qgrid/grid.py
+++ b/qgrid/grid.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     from IPython.html import widgets
 from IPython.display import display, Javascript
 try:
-    from traitlets import Unicode, Instance, Bool, Integer, Dict, List
+    from traitlets import Unicode, Instance, Bool, Integer, Dict, List, observe
 except ImportError:
     from IPython.utils.traitlets import (
         Unicode, Instance, Bool, Integer, Dict, List
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ class QGridWidget(widgets.DOMWidget):
     _multi_index = Bool(False)
     _selected_rows = List()
 
+    filtered = List(sync=True)
     df = Instance(pd.DataFrame)
     precision = Integer(6)
     grid_options = Dict(sync=True)
@@ -271,6 +272,8 @@ def _update_table(self):
         if not df.index.name:
             df.index.name = 'Index'
 
+        self.filtered = df.index.tolist()
+
         if type(df.index) == pd.core.index.MultiIndex:
             df.reset_index(inplace=True)
             self._multi_index = True
@@ -385,3 +388,10 @@ def export(self, value=None):
 
         display_html(raw_html, raw=True)
         display_javascript(raw_js, raw=True)
+
+    @observe('filtered')
+    def filtered_changed(self, change):
+        self.filtered = [ ]
+        for index in change['new']:
+            self.filtered.append(int(index))
+
diff --git a/qgrid/qgridjs/qgrid.widget.js b/qgrid/qgridjs/qgrid.widget.js
index 5ad64356..09324f4d 100644
--- a/qgrid/qgridjs/qgrid.widget.js
+++ b/qgrid/qgridjs/qgrid.widget.js
@@ -122,6 +122,18 @@ define([path], function(widget) {
             grid = new this.dgrid.QGrid(this.tableDiv, df, column_types);
             grid.initialize_slick_grid(options);
 
+            grid.data_view.onRowCountChanged.subscribe(function(e, args) {
+                var items = grid.data_view.getItems();
+                var indexes = [ ];
+                for (var i in items) {
+                    if (items[i].include) {
+                        indexes.push(items[i].Index);
+                    }
+                }
+                that.model.set('filtered', indexes);
+                that.model.save_changes();
+            });
+
             // set up editing
             var sgrid = grid.slick_grid;
             var columns = sgrid.getColumns();
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1cd2f6aa..53acffb9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 notebook>=4.0.0
 pandas>=0.16.2
 ipywidgets>=4.0.0
+jupyter-pip>=0.3.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 23b4fbfe..762a1185 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
     join, dirname, abspath
 )
 
+#jchuahtacc
+try:
+    from jupyterpip import cmdclass
+except:
+    import pip, importlib
+    pip.main(['install', 'jupyter-pip']); cmdclass = importlib.import_module('jupyterpip').cmdclass
 
 def read_requirements(basename):
     reqs_file = join(dirname(abspath(__file__)), basename)
@@ -50,5 +56,6 @@ def read_requirements(basename):
         'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis',
         ],
     install_requires=reqs,
-    url="https://github.com/quantopian/qgrid"
+    url="https://github.com/quantopian/qgrid",
+    cmdclass=cmdclass('qgrid/qgridjs'),
 )