diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/googletrans/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/googletrans/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..06d008200059
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/googletrans/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, requests, pytest, coveralls }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "googletrans";
+  version = "2.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ssut";
+    repo = "py-googletrans";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0wzzinn0k9rfv9z1gmfk9l4kljyd4n6kizsjw4wjxv91kfhj92hz";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest coveralls ];
+
+  # majority of tests just try to ping Google's Translate API endpoint
+  doCheck = false;
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "googletrans" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Googletrans is python library to interact with Google Translate API";
+    homepage = "https://py-googletrans.readthedocs.io";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ unode ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c00033b3a720..891dc4165ad6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2739,6 +2739,8 @@ in {
 
   google-pasta = callPackage ../development/python-modules/google-pasta { };
 
+  googletrans = callPackage ../development/python-modules/googletrans { };
+
   gpapi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gpapi { };
   gplaycli = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gplaycli { };