diff --git a/dev-python/soupsieve/Manifest b/dev-python/soupsieve/Manifest
index 8d9dbfbadbe1..9a905999d487 100644
--- a/dev-python/soupsieve/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/soupsieve/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+DIST soupsieve-2.8.1.gh.tar.gz 154292 BLAKE2B 971d14a477439fe0631b1598c9018633f6362c6def56ef9a3121e30a9f211cb7089a2e8a67b261529d4f72c521cacc3f3e694c77b6c881232bbe065a2756eb8c SHA512 fa4f49209279174da2e47bfbd7d6b3b3d21717877eb53b1a635b1b6384bdfafffd89685a13423b639bc60151ba1ce199bb769958d8980f59107d56c60ca383f3
 DIST soupsieve-2.8.gh.tar.gz 107516 BLAKE2B be8daf5ba55e8abf7f93c7c0ea37b6940a0c16ff126aed4cd407da464e413e956c156ba314b0f5fa9c648e47a96ba2b16baf6aa341b3f4f3c0d5a71a230f89fb SHA512 04cc9f0a526839cd72a0eab4a9a990fb645b8e910cff3f7bbfb9e9bf7e7af7de906c310320adcfe4102dc5ba12cfa215f4b04be01fce3016eda1e6be3080a1ca
diff --git a/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-2.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-2.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9936b93f4f6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/soupsieve/soupsieve-2.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} pypy3_11 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A modern CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/
+	https://pypi.org/project/soupsieve/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/html5lib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest