diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/2018.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/2018.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cac88c55794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/2018.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "html2text";
+  version = "2018.1.9";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "627514fb30e7566b37be6900df26c2c78a030cc9e6211bda604d8181233bcdd4";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Turn HTML into equivalent Markdown-structured text";
+    homepage = https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/;
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f97de31c64d..d723bdb2b63 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5800,7 +5800,8 @@ in {
 
   termcolor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/termcolor { };
 
-  html2text = callPackage ../development/python-modules/html2text { };
+  html2text = if isPy3k then callPackage ../development/python-modules/html2text { }
+                        else callPackage ../development/python-modules/html2text/2018.nix { };
 
   pychart = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychart {};