diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..83a89cfb6028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{stdenv, fetchgit, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, pcre, zlib, lzma}:
+
+let release = "0.18.1"; in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "silver-searcher-${release}";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git";
+    rev = "refs/tags/${release}";
+    sha256 = "bf2c8f3c68895e0ee00d373c1d87201e806b413bb28373ee168e375f2a095ec5";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig pcre zlib lzma ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/;
+    description = "A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.madjar ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index deb6708decf5..6cb5fb3b1eac 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1832,6 +1832,8 @@ let
 
   silc_server = callPackage ../servers/silc-server { };
 
+  silver-searcher = callPackage ../tools/text/silver-searcher { };
+
   sleuthkit = callPackage ../tools/system/sleuthkit {};
 
   slimrat = callPackage ../tools/networking/slimrat {