diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ijson/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ijson/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f70cc9d69452
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ijson/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "ijson";
+  version = "2.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0x7l9k2dvxzd5mjgiq15nl9b0sxcqy1cqaz744bjwkz4z5mrypzg";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = false; # something about yajl
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Iterative JSON parser with a standard Python iterator interface";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/isagalaev/ijson";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ rvl ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 5c4a4e49cbc8..d650f4025200 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6323,6 +6323,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  ijson = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ijson/default.nix {};
+
   imagesize = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "imagesize-${version}";
     version = "0.7.0";