diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/seabreeze/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/seabreeze/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8555c024c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/seabreeze/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, buildPythonPackage
+, pyusb
+, numpy
+}:
+
+## Usage
+# In NixOS, simply add the `udev` multiple output to services.udev.packages:
+#   services.udev.packages = [ pkgs.python3Packages.seabreeze.udev ];
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "seabreeze";
+  version = "0.6.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ap--";
+    repo = "python-seabreeze";
+    rev = "python-seabreeze-v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0bc2s9ic77gz9m40w89snixphxlzib60xa4f49n4zasjrddfz1l8";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "udev" ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $udev/lib/udev/rules.d
+    cp misc/10-oceanoptics.rules $udev/lib/udev/rules.d/10-oceanoptics.rules
+  '';
+
+  # underlying c libraries are tested and fail
+  # (c libs are used with anaconda, which we don't care about as we use the alternative path, being that of pyusb).
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyusb numpy ];
+
+  setupPyBuildFlags = [ "--without-cseabreeze" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ap--/python-seabreeze";
+    description = "A python library to access Ocean Optics spectrometers";
+    maintainers = [];
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2c9f6d78a5a..8f26c52df84 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4273,6 +4273,8 @@ in {
 
   seaborn = callPackage ../development/python-modules/seaborn { };
 
+  seabreeze = callPackage ../development/python-modules/seabreeze { };
+
   selenium = callPackage ../development/python-modules/selenium { };
 
   serpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/serpy { };