diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/weboob/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/weboob/default.nix
index 73a70a65c38..93a17ea4425 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/weboob/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/weboob/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, stdenv, isPy27
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, fetchPypi, stdenv, isPy27
 , nose, pillow, prettytable, pyyaml, dateutil, gdata
 , requests, mechanize, feedparser, lxml, gnupg, pyqt5
 , libyaml, simplejson, cssselect, futures, pdfminer
@@ -6,7 +6,18 @@
 , unidecode
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+let
+  # Support for Python 2.7 was dropped in 1.7.7
+  google_api_python_client_python27 = google_api_python_client.overrideDerivation
+    (oldAttrs: rec {
+      pname = "google-api-python-client";
+      version = "1.7.6";
+      src = fetchPypi {
+        inherit pname version;
+        sha256 = "14w5sdrp0bk9n0r2lmpqmrbf2zclpfq6q7giyahnskkfzdkb165z";
+      };
+    });
+in buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "weboob";
   version = "1.3";
   disabled = ! isPy27;
@@ -35,8 +46,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pillow prettytable pyyaml dateutil
     gdata requests mechanize feedparser lxml gnupg pyqt5 libyaml
-    simplejson cssselect futures pdfminer termcolor google_api_python_client
-    html2text unidecode ];
+    simplejson cssselect futures pdfminer termcolor
+    google_api_python_client_python27 html2text unidecode ];
 
   checkPhase = ''
     nosetests