diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/faust-cchardet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/faust-cchardet/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ca2cdc02162e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/faust-cchardet/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, cython
+, pkgconfig
+, setuptools
+, wheel
+, pytestCheckHook
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "faust-cchardet";
+  version = "2.1.18";
+  format = "pyproject";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "faust-streaming";
+    repo = "cChardet";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+    hash = "sha256-jTOqxBss/FAb8nMkU62H6O4ysmirD2FTA9mtvxXh43k=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cython
+    pkgconfig
+    setuptools
+    wheel
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "cchardet"
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    changelog = "https://github.com/faust-streaming/cChardet/blob/${src.rev}/CHANGES.rst";
+    description = "High-speed universal character encoding detector";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/faust-streaming/cChardet";
+    license = lib.licenses.mpl11;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ dotlambda ivan ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 259f5de93347..79f3233af727 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3327,6 +3327,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   fasttext-predict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fasttext-predict { };
 
+  faust-cchardet = callPackage ../development/python-modules/faust-cchardet { };
+
   favicon = callPackage ../development/python-modules/favicon { };
 
   fb-re2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fb-re2 { };