diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/whoosh-compat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/whoosh-compat/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f612898d8fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/whoosh-compat/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  hatchling,
+  hypothesis,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  python-dateutil,
+  tantivy,
+  whoosh,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "whoosh-compat";
+  version = "0.3.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "stumpylog";
+    repo = "whoosh-compat";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-DmPrNoOGzgTDwHh1GqyTJ7PkXWu2rbWrvNj+8fnjcpE=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [ hatchling ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    python-dateutil
+  ];
+
+  optional-dependencies = {
+    tantivy = [ tantivy ];
+  };
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    hypothesis
+    pytestCheckHook
+    whoosh
+  ]
+  ++ finalAttrs.passthru.optional-dependencies.tantivy;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "whoosh_compat" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Whoosh query-language parser emitting programmatic tantivy queries";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/stumpylog/whoosh-compat/";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/stumpylog/whoosh-compat/blob/${finalAttrs.src.tag}/CHANGELOG.md";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ SuperSandro2000 ];
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 33447fd4ffaa..f292cc9afe5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -22647,6 +22647,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   whoosh = callPackage ../development/python-modules/whoosh { };
 
+  whoosh-compat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/whoosh-compat { };
+
   whoosh-reloaded = callPackage ../development/python-modules/whoosh-reloaded { };
 
   widgetsnbextension = callPackage ../development/python-modules/widgetsnbextension { };