diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/googleapis_common_protos/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/googleapis_common_protos/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..28e84f4846e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/googleapis_common_protos/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
+, protobuf, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "googleapis-common-protos";
+  version = "1.5.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1whfjl44gy15ha6palpwa2m0xi36dsvpaz8vw0cvb2k2lbdfsxf0";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ protobuf ];
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  doCheck = false;  # there are no tests
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Common protobufs used in Google APIs";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vanschelven ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b1a8fca5c43..b7db812ea3d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -9045,6 +9045,8 @@ in {
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ oauth2client gdata simplejson httplib2 keyring six rsa ];
   };
 
+  googleapis_common_protos = callPackage ../development/python-modules/googleapis_common_protos { };
+
   google_api_python_client = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "google-api-python-client-${version}";
     version = "1.5.1";