diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.json b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e9c163c65259
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.json
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+[{
+  "pname": "es_core_web_md",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "sha256": "0ikyakdhnj6rrfpr8k83695d1gd3z9n60a245hwwchv94jmr7r6s",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "fr_depvec_web_lg",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "sha256": "0nxmdszs1s5by2874cz37azrmwamh1ngdsiylffkfihzq6s8bhka",
+  "license": "cc-by-nc-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "en_core_web_md",
+  "version": "1.2.1",
+  "sha256": "12prr4hcbfdaky9rcna1y1ykr417jkhkks2r8l06g8fb7am3pvp3",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "en_depent_web_md",
+  "version": "1.2.1",
+  "sha256": "0giyr35q5lpp5drpcamyvb5gsjnhj62mk3ndfr49nm1s6d5f6m52",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "en_core_web_sm",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
+  "sha256": "0vc4l77dcwa9lmzyqdci8ikjc0m2rhasl2zvyba547vf76qb0528",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "de_core_news_md",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "sha256": "072jz2rdi1nckny7k16avp86vjg4didfdsw816kfl9zwr88iny6g",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+},
+{
+  "pname": "en_vectors_glove_md",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "sha256": "1jbr27xnh5fdww8yphpvk2brfnzb174wfnxkzdqwv3iyi02zsin6",
+  "license": "cc-by-sa-40"
+}]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3ef57d9c04f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, spacy }:
+let
+  buildModelPackage = { pname, version, sha256, license }: buildPythonPackage {
+    name = "${pname}-${version}";
+    inherit pname version;
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/${pname}-${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+      inherit sha256;
+    };
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ spacy ];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Models for the spaCy NLP library";
+      homepage    = "https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models";
+      license     = licenses."${license}";
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ rvl ];
+    };
+  };
+
+  makeModelSet = models: with pkgs.lib; listToAttrs (map (m: nameValuePair m.pname (buildModelPackage m)) models);
+
+in makeModelSet (pkgs.lib.importJSON ./models.json)
+
+# cat models.json | jq -r '.[] | @uri "https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/\(.pname)-\(.version)/\(.pname)-\(.version).tar.gz"' | xargs -n1 nix-prefetch-url
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 733fb7c63912..f8ae7a610ddd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -27277,6 +27277,8 @@ EOF
 
   spacy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy { };
 
+  spacy_models = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix { };
+
   textacy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/textacy { };
 
   pyemd  = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyemd { };