diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 481c74f9f2..e58fd05cd5 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ F:	package/libsrtp/
 F:	package/libwebsock/
 F:	package/sofia-sip/
 
+N:	Grzegorz Blach <grzegorz@blach.pl>
+F:	package/python-mimeparse/
+
 N:	Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@oliseo.fr>
 F:	package/c-icap/
 F:	package/c-icap-modules/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index eda0f698dc..cd17f0e709 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-markupsafe/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mbstrdecoder/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-meld3/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-mimeparse/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mistune/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-more-itertools/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-msgpack/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-mimeparse/Config.in b/package/python-mimeparse/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2437c3665b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mimeparse/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MIMEPARSE
+	bool "python-mimeparse"
+	help
+	  A module provides basic functions for parsing mime-type
+	  names and matching them against a list of media-ranges.
+
+	  https://github.com/dbtsai/python-mimeparse
diff --git a/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.hash b/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9721c5fa0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/python-mimeparse/json
+md5	a32ae1df93be1ddb581d1c0fa124bab4  python-mimeparse-1.6.0.tar.gz
+sha256	76e4b03d700a641fd7761d3cd4fdbbdcd787eade1ebfac43f877016328334f78  python-mimeparse-1.6.0.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256	89807acf2309bd285f033404ee78581602f3cd9b819a16ac2f0e5f60ff4a473e  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.mk b/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc796988d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mimeparse/python-mimeparse.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-mimeparse
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_VERSION = 1.6.0
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_SOURCE = python-mimeparse-$(PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0f/40/ac5f9e44a55b678c3cd881b4c3376e5b002677dbeab6fb3a50bac5d50d29
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_MIMEPARSE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))