diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 9de98fa87d..f4e1b6ef16 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-web2py/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-webpy/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-werkzeug/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-whoosh/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-ws4py/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-wsaccel/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-xlrd/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-whoosh/Config.in b/package/python-whoosh/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1128ce6417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whoosh/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_WHOOSH
+	bool "python-whoosh"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # runtime
+	help
+	  Whoosh is a fast, pure-Python full text indexing, search and
+	  spell checking library.
+
+	  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Whoosh/
diff --git a/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.hash b/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b14dd0f877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# md5 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Whoosh/json, sha256 locally computed
+md5	9a0fc2df9335e1d2e81dd84a2c4c416f  Whoosh-2.7.0.tar.gz
+sha256	cdfc0e1c5173207ac7b312afe78d83fb552cfed30427bf7b3dba8b1d26cea8f7  Whoosh-2.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.mk b/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64f3820c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whoosh/python-whoosh.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-whoosh
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_VERSION = 2.7.0
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_SOURCE = Whoosh-$(PYTHON_WHOOSH_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_SITE = http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/W/Whoosh
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_LICENSE = BSD-3c
+PYTHON_WHOOSH_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
+
+$(eval $(python-package))