diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..04770cf7bef0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/pyload/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, pythonPackages, gocr, unrar, rhino, spidermonkey }:
+pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+  version = "0.4.9-next";
+  name = "pyLoad-" + version;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pyload";
+    repo = "pyload";
+    rev = "03f3ad9e39da2b9a378987693c4a69720e4084c7";
+    sha256 = "0fgsz6yzxrlq3qvsyxsyzgmy4za35v1xh3i4drhispk9zb5jm1xx";
+  };
+
+  patches =
+    let
+      # gets merged in next release version of pyload
+      configParserPatch = fetchpatch {
+        url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/pyload/pyload/pull/2625.diff";
+        sha256 = "1bisgx78kcr5c0x0i3h0ch5mykns5wx5wx7gvjj0pc71lfzlxzb9";
+      };
+      setupPyPatch = fetchpatch {
+        url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/pyload/pyload/pull/2638.diff";
+        sha256 = "1gmvsmlcvb96g48kibv47cbmb5slivy3c5qflb5n0qc8k7axg3i9";
+      };
+    in [ configParserPatch setupPyPatch ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    unrar rhino spidermonkey gocr pythonPackages.paver
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [
+    pycurl jinja2 beaker thrift simplejson pycrypto feedparser pyqt4 gdbm
+    tkinter beautifulsoup
+  ];
+
+  #remove this once the PR patches above are merged. Needed because githubs diff endpoint
+  #does not support diff -N
+  prePatch = ''
+    touch module/config/__init__.py
+  '';
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    paver generate_setup
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Free and open source downloader for 1-click-hosting sites";
+    homepage = https://github.com/pyload/pyload;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.mahe ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cbe19174a213..a4f073d71d93 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17001,6 +17001,8 @@ in
 
   pt = callPackage ../applications/misc/pt { };
 
+  pyload = callPackage ../applications/networking/pyload {};
+
   uae = callPackage ../misc/emulators/uae { };
 
   fsuae = callPackage ../misc/emulators/fs-uae { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index df27eb0221f9..9f44a6428194 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -19277,7 +19277,6 @@ in modules // {
     };
   });
 
-
   pycurl2 = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "pycurl2-7.20.0";
     disabled = isPy3k;