diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/irctokens/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/irctokens/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..037a5f0520f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/irctokens/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pythonOlder
+, pyyaml
+, python
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "irctokens";
+  version = "2.0.0";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";  # f-strings
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jesopo";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0kpxn5paailm4xpdlnzxrhjrfgvvg5pp327wd8kl41a0wbqkj4zb";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pyyaml ];
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ${python.interpreter} -m unittest test
+  '';
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "irctokens" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "RFC1459 and IRCv3 protocol tokeniser library for python3";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jesopo/irctokens";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ hexa ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 4928fdd7c16..8e7a9247edb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2965,6 +2965,8 @@ in {
 
   irc = callPackage ../development/python-modules/irc { };
 
+  irctokens = callPackage ../development/python-modules/irctokens { };
+
   isbnlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/isbnlib { };
 
   islpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/islpy { };