diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/treq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/treq/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..37f9e3324c7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/treq/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, service-identity, requests2,
+  six, mock, twisted, incremental, coreutils, gnumake, pep8, sphinx,
+  openssl, pyopenssl }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "treq";
+  version = "16.12.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/t/${pname}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1aci3f3rmb5mdf4s6s4k4kghmnyy784cxgi3pz99m5jp274fs25h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    pep8
+    mock
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    service-identity
+    requests2
+    twisted
+    incremental
+    sphinx
+    six
+    openssl
+    pyopenssl
+  ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ${pep8}/bin/pep8 --ignore=E902 treq
+    trial treq
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false;
+  # Failure: twisted.web._newclient.RequestTransmissionFailed: [<twisted.python.failure.Failure OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', 'ssl3_get_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')]>]
+
+  postBuild = ''
+    ${coreutils}/bin/mkdir -pv treq
+    ${coreutils}/bin/echo "${version}" | ${coreutils}/bin/tee treq/_version
+    cd docs && ${gnumake}/bin/make html && cd ..
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://github.com/twisted/treq;
+    description = "A requests-like API built on top of twisted.web's Agent";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 40fda8e7a8bb..4e0d235caa5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -31908,6 +31908,8 @@ EOF
 
   incremental = callPackage ../development/python-modules/incremental { };
 
+  treq = callPackage ../development/python-modules/treq { };
+
 });
 
 in fix' (extends overrides packages)