diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/surfraw/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/surfraw/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6fcc031aab4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/surfraw/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, perl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "surfraw-2.2.8";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/dist/surfraw-2.2.8.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "925075e05637e39458b00e859193aacde306aafd9a962f44f5114f81713539ec";
+  };
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-opensearch"
+  ];
+
+  buildNativeInputs = [ perl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power";
+    homepage = "http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org";
+    maintainers = [];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9bc56479723..90d526a929d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1493,6 +1493,8 @@ let
 
   su = shadow;
 
+  surfraw = callPackage ../tools/networking/surfraw { };
+
   swec = callPackage ../tools/networking/swec {
     inherit (perlPackages) LWP URI HTMLParser HTTPServerSimple Parent;
   };