diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/html5-parser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html5-parser/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..549dcb89bf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html5-parser/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, pkgs, pkgconfig, chardet, lxml }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "html5-parser";
+  version = "0.4.3";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "173vzg214x7qfq201m4b09wg5nszdgwjw5q02v23k54iqm3kcpnx";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ chardet lxml pkgs.libxml2 ];
+
+  doCheck = false; # No such file or directory: 'run_tests.py'
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python";
+    homepage = https://html5-parser.readthedocs.io;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b72e6f75cd5..39c73e6f6e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2085,6 +2085,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  html5-parser = callPackage ../development/python-modules/html5-parser {};
+
   httpserver = callPackage ../development/python-modules/httpserver {};
 
   bleach = buildPythonPackage rec {