diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/lark-parser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/lark-parser/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b81cc132a2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/lark-parser/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, python
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "lark-parser"; # PyPI name
+  version = "2017-12-10";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "erezsh";
+    repo = "lark";
+    rev = "852607b978584ecdec68ac115dd8554cdb0a2305";
+    sha256 = "1clzmvbp1b4zamcm6ldak0hkw46n3lhw4b28qq9xdl0n4va6zig7";
+  };
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ${python.interpreter} -m unittest
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false; # Requires js2py
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A modern parsing library for Python, implementing Earley & LALR(1) and an easy interface";
+    homepage = https://github.com/erezsh/lark;
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d8e0ef0abe2..448c3375b3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10265,6 +10265,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  lark-parser = callPackage ../development/python-modules/lark-parser { };
+
   lazy-object-proxy = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "lazy-object-proxy-${version}";
     version = "1.2.1";