diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 0221a59016..51f44a2c11 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ menu "Perl libraries/modules"
 	source "package/perl-path-tiny/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-time-hires/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-try-tiny/Config.in"
+	source "package/perl-uri/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-xml-libxml/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-xml-namespacesupport/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-xml-sax/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/perl-uri/Config.in b/package/perl-uri/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62a53f248a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-uri/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_URI
+	bool "perl-uri"
+	help
+	  The module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent
+	  Uniform Resource Identifier references as specified in RFC 2396 and
+	  updated by RFC 2732.
+
+	  https://github.com/libwww-perl/uri
diff --git a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da33416d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5    d0ef53b6c63bcc02ba55f405c30741e3 URI-1.67.tar.gz
+sha256 7088d43d5f4902becfa5e0627751f5e6d0e0bdd1637b2d39e70ce807068a274e URI-1.67.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..421a89f868
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# perl-uri
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PERL_URI_VERSION = 1.67
+PERL_URI_SOURCE = URI-$(PERL_URI_VERSION).tar.gz
+PERL_URI_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER
+PERL_URI_DEPENDENCIES = perl
+PERL_URI_LICENSE = Artistic or GPLv1+
+PERL_URI_LICENSE_FILES = README
+
+$(eval $(perl-package))