diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbmerge/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbmerge/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..df6c774bfbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbmerge/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, nbformat
+, nose
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "nbmerge";
+  version = "unstable-2017-10-23";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jbn";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "fc0ba95e8422340317358ffec4404235defbc06a";
+    sha256 = "1cn550kjadnxc1sx2xy814248fpzrj3lgvrmsbrwmk03vwaa2hmi";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ nbformat ];
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs .
+    nosetests -v
+    PATH=$PATH:$out/bin ./cli_tests.sh
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A tool to merge/concatenate Jupyter (IPython) notebooks";
+    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ globin ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f0a8553dc38..8df85f143bb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -12702,6 +12702,8 @@ in {
 
   nbformat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nbformat { };
 
+  nbmerge = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nbmerge { };
+
   nbxmpp = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "nbxmpp-${version}";
     version = "0.5.5";