diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38b7c27b6fde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, WWWMechanize, LWP, makeWrapper}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "slimrat-1.0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://slimrat.googlecode.com/files/slimrat-1.0.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "139b71d45k4b1y47iq62a9732cnaqqbh8s4knkrgq2hx0jxpsk5a";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl WWWMechanize LWP makeWrapper ];
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -e 's,#!.*,#!${perl}/bin/perl,' -i src/{slimrat,slimrat-gui}
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    ensureDir $out/share/slimrat $out/bin
+    cp -R src/* $out/share/slimrat
+    # slimrat-gui does not work (it needs the Gtk2 perl package)
+    for i in slimrat; do
+      makeWrapper $out/share/slimrat/$i $out/bin/$i \
+        --prefix PERL5LIB : $PERL5LIB
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://code.google.com/p/slimrat/;
+    description = "Linux Rapidshare downloader";
+    license = "BSD";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b7f73fd9387c..c91cff08edc2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1542,6 +1542,11 @@ let
     inherit stdenv perl;
   };
 
+  slimrat = import ../tools/networking/slimrat {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl makeWrapper;
+    inherit (perlPackages) WWWMechanize LWP;
+  };
+
   slsnif = import ../tools/misc/slsnif {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };