diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index def3db0e50..ed79910b9d 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1224,6 +1224,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-matplotlib/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-matplotlib-inline/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mbstrdecoder/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-mdit-py-plugins/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mdurl/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-memory-profiler/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-memray/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/Config.in b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c0f9311e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS
+	bool "python-mdit-py-plugins"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MARKDOWN_IT_PY # runtime
+	help
+	  Collection of plugins for markdown-it-py.
+
+	  https://github.com/executablebooks/mdit-py-plugins
diff --git a/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.hash b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4537d908af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/mdit-py-plugins/json
+md5  8afddf3e020778a9d4490f43ce469d2a  mdit_py_plugins-0.5.0.tar.gz
+sha256  f4918cb50119f50446560513a8e311d574ff6aaed72606ddae6d35716fe809c6  mdit_py_plugins-0.5.0.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  4a2260d6e2cd0f5a151a1e86dbfe7d3ed552b1e2beabf9941c1ba5c49cbce484  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.mk b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcbec98089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-mdit-py-plugins/python-mdit-py-plugins.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-mdit-py-plugins
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_VERSION = 0.5.0
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_SOURCE = mdit_py_plugins-$(PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/fd/a756d36c0bfba5f6e39a1cdbdbfdd448dc02692467d83816dff4592a1ebc
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_SETUP_TYPE = flit
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_MDIT_PY_PLUGINS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))