diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/venus/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/venus/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4f9732dec6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/venus/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python, pythonPackages, libxslt, libxml2, makeWrapper }:
+
+let
+  rev = "9de21094a8cf565bdfcf75688e121a5ad1f5397b";
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "venus-${rev}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/rubys/venus/tarball/${rev}";
+    name = "${name}.tar.bz";
+    sha256 = "0lsc9d83grbi3iwm8ppaig4h9vbmd5h4vvz83lmpnyp7zqfka7dy";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    substituteInPlace tests/test_spider.py \
+        --replace "urllib.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:%d/' % _PORT).read()" "" \
+        --replace "[200,200,200,200,404]" "[200,200,200,404]"
+    substituteInPlace planet.py \
+        --replace "#!/usr/bin/env python" "#!${python}/bin/python"
+    substituteInPlace tests/test_apply.py \
+        --replace "'xsltproc" "'${libxslt}/bin/xsltproc"
+    substituteInPlace planet/shell/xslt.py \
+        --replace "'xsltproc" "'${libxslt}/bin/xsltproc"
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkPhase = "python runtests.py";
+
+  buildInputs = [ python python.modules.bsddb python.modules.ssl libxslt
+    libxml2 pythonPackages.genshi pythonPackages.lxml makeWrapper ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    cp -R ./* $out/
+    ln -s $out/planet.py $out/bin/venus-planet
+    wrapProgram $out/planet.py \
+        --prefix PYTHONPATH : $PYTHONPATH:${pythonPackages.lxml}/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages:${pythonPackages.genshi}/lib/${python.libPrefix}/site-packages
+    python runtests.py
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Planet Venus is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.";
+    homepage = "http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.psfl;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.garbas ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b68c7ee17eb..25af46702ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1914,6 +1914,10 @@ let
 
   varnish = callPackage ../servers/varnish { };
 
+  venus = callPackage ../tools/misc/venus {
+    python = python27;
+  };
+
   vlan = callPackage ../tools/networking/vlan { };
 
   wakelan = callPackage ../tools/networking/wakelan { };