diff --git a/dev-python/readability-lxml/Manifest b/dev-python/readability-lxml/Manifest
index 1fa7d079cd..50da2ee3e0 100644
--- a/dev-python/readability-lxml/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/readability-lxml/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST readability-lxml-0.6.1.tar.gz 13741 BLAKE2B 8bae46033e6eb3c171869746291a856267bc8f64ae088969405c5920229447fa470b6e14ea8b32b380c43d30e83ad9371149181d293bbfca6ff13fa271da3d74 SHA512 f7bead871dc84e2cc6dac18ced3f9fa223cd3961204330064e338b2e822ba9af58beb43be42b7f61a7cfb761f7c1d7a339d428c310d6be34b7546328f1eeb276
+DIST readability-lxml-0.8.1.gh.tar.gz 78871 BLAKE2B ef179d8bb727c0630e3af763a18170c1956be5cd3b8ad1cfe614b233964225e2e73b814c4ad628780eaffca21881d1ed276f45248a656b8c37ef1e6ccb121e85 SHA512 c5b296a35606f65643f72e7d9ee07d6820a7a6a36ce97350673ea6076b704f7ed72f92ded47dac56690cdf3776eb8fadbb02ea234355a9982d4127976b2e6c6e
diff --git a/dev-python/readability-lxml/metadata.xml b/dev-python/readability-lxml/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9aea3f5df1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/readability-lxml/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in</email>
+		<name>Anna</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">readability-lxml</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/readability-lxml/readability-lxml-0.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/readability-lxml/readability-lxml-0.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b43ed4e035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/readability-lxml/readability-lxml-0.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Copyright 2019-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} pypy3 )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_PN="python-readability"
+DESCRIPTION="fast html to text parser (article readability tool)"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/readability-lxml/
+	https://github.com/buriy/python-readability
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/buriy/${MY_PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/cssselect[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	|| ( ( $(python_gen_cond_dep \
+			'dev-python/cchardet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python3_{8..10}) )
+		dev-python/chardet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		$(python_gen_cond_dep \
+			'dev-python/timeout-decorator[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python3_{8..11})
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx doc/source \
+	dev-python/recommonmark \
+	dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme
+
+python_test() {
+	[[ ${EPYTHON} == pypy3 ]] && \
+		return 0  # unsatisfied dep
+
+	distutils-r1_python_test
+}