diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/webencodings/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/webencodings/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..54f3517ca00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/webencodings/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, pytest
+}:
+
+let
+  pname = "webencodings";
+  version = "0.5";
+in buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/${builtins.substring 0 1 pname}/${pname}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "a5c55ee93b24e740fe951c37b5c228dccc1f171450e188555a775261cce1b904";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pytest ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    py.test webencodings/tests.py
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Character encoding aliases for legacy web content";
+    homepage = https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings;
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 45fa07f619f..47955ae0e57 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -26423,6 +26423,8 @@ EOF
     };
   };
 
+  webencodings = callPackage ../development/python-modules/webencodings { };
+
   websockets = callPackage ../development/python-modules/websockets { };
 
   wand = buildPythonPackage rec {