diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/uriparser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/uriparser/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..76aec25a7923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/uriparser/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cpptest, pkgconfig, doxygen, graphviz }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "uriparser-0.8.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/uriparser/Sources/0.8.2/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "13sh7slys3y5gfscc40g2r3hkjjywjvxlcqr77ifjrazc6q6cvkd";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ cpptest pkgconfig doxygen graphviz ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://uriparser.sourceforge.net/;
+    description = "Strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing library";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ bosu ];
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8c4a95d7c0a4..21735bd27e8e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3184,6 +3184,8 @@ let
 
   upx = callPackage ../tools/compression/upx { };
 
+  uriparser = callPackage ../development/libraries/uriparser {};
+
   urlview = callPackage ../applications/misc/urlview {};
 
   usbmuxd = callPackage ../tools/misc/usbmuxd {};