diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 63d554bf28..3c2c032980 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ F:	package/python-functools32/
 F:	package/python-ipaddr/
 F:	package/python-pam/
 F:	package/python-psutil/
+F:	package/python-request-id/
 F:	package/python-texttable/
 F:	package/python-webob/
 F:	package/python-websocket-client/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 277186becb..6cd19ec97f 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -914,6 +914,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-raven/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-reentry/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-remi/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-request-id/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-requests/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-requests-oauthlib/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-requests-toolbelt/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-request-id/Config.in b/package/python-request-id/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..39b5456d00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-request-id/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_REQUEST_ID
+	bool "python-request-id"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_WEBOB # runtime
+	help
+	  Attach a unique identifier to every WSGI request.
+
+	  https://github.com/mmerickel/request_id
diff --git a/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.hash b/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f412502b94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/request-id/json
+md5	29cdbb13f26c0e944e58cfbebfc52085  request-id-0.3.1.tar.gz
+sha256	4c8adff44ad6779305d5493f780400aff5ff5139e98d622379c0e0797b58d812  request-id-0.3.1.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256	2d65d17b4df34f184557b8031df05e4c264d2fa6b82e560be074967eff3b326c  LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.mk b/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96601b9750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-request-id/python-request-id.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-request-id
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_VERSION = 0.3.1
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_SOURCE = request-id-$(PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2e/d4/bbe8cdd41012ba54d453452837101cecbb4151866b8aab6ca1ffb00d398c
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_REQUEST_ID_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
+
+$(eval $(python-package))