diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 530add8452..8db52abdbf 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ menu "Perl libraries/modules"
 	source "package/perl-io-html/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-io-socket-ssl/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-json-tiny/Config.in"
+	source "package/perl-libwww/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-lwp-mediatypes/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-mojolicious/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-net-dns/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/perl-libwww/Config.in b/package/perl-libwww/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..523371fc3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-libwww/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_LIBWWW
+	bool "perl-libwww"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_ENCODE_LOCALE
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_FILE_LISTING
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTML_PARSER
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_COOKIES
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_DAEMON
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTTP_NEGOTIATE
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_LWP_MEDIATYPES
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_NET_HTTP
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_URI
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_WWW_ROBOTRULES
+	help
+	  The World-Wide Web library for Perl
+
+	  https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl
diff --git a/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.hash b/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ef5ccfe7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5    85b36bcd2fd2450718ee14f894f0d3d1 libwww-perl-6.13.tar.gz
+sha256 5fbd13eebd1933e5a203fceb2c1629efbccff3efc8fab6ec0285c79d0a95f8b2 libwww-perl-6.13.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.mk b/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ee1e04079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-libwww/perl-libwww.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# perl-libwww
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PERL_LIBWWW_VERSION = 6.13
+PERL_LIBWWW_SITE = $(call github,libwww-perl,libwww-perl,$(PERL_LIBWWW_VERSION))
+PERL_LIBWWW_LICENSE = Artistic or GPLv1+
+PERL_LIBWWW_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+PERL_LIBWWW_DEPENDENCIES = \
+	perl-encode-locale \
+	perl-file-listing \
+	perl-html-parser \
+	perl-http-cookies \
+	perl-http-daemon \
+	perl-http-date \
+	perl-http-negotiate \
+	perl-net-http \
+	perl-uri \
+	perl-www-robotrules
+
+$(eval $(perl-package))