diff --git a/dev-python/websocket-client/Manifest b/dev-python/websocket-client/Manifest
index 4d97073a759bd..c4ace7fe3400e 100644
--- a/dev-python/websocket-client/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/websocket-client/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST websocket-client-1.6.1.tar.gz 51324 BLAKE2B 7619f6a1dfe7c9df19e645f396b17695ba6e1cda8d06f99be2451c7b3f7d5fc745402abcab2f6b5ce260aab94ecba17439a1f7ff2612acc66dbd88e973f2f512 SHA512 eb784dffb2ad26b63e5890685ed46ccadee40687f4433a1b28392d468fdc1099192095899b56129f72b28e88960744bb5d4991d826476d77ec98bbf18df3f608
+DIST websocket-client-1.6.2.tar.gz 51467 BLAKE2B bc53499d22d78db722ab8e0c986d965028355269ad3def92b4dcb17c80eea079ad3fcb3201cb8b76aba5111dbf5a7311802097d916cb89c934f33b9a24e939de SHA512 51ba53a916c7716c3c017606c108a434a97042658b829518dbe2307a0f0b568a79d68a8b382a3e8530972f51a418f109546773cbc8872c05fa099fcbfb00d261
diff --git a/dev-python/websocket-client/websocket-client-1.6.2.ebuild b/dev-python/websocket-client/websocket-client-1.6.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e70ca56c76884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/websocket-client/websocket-client-1.6.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYPI_NO_NORMALIZE=1
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{10..12} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="WebSocket client for python with hybi13 support"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client/
+	https://pypi.org/project/websocket-client/
+"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="examples"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/python-socks[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+python_install_all() {
+	if use examples; then
+		docompress -x "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples"
+		dodoc -r examples
+	fi
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}