diff --git a/dev-python/minify-html/Manifest b/dev-python/minify-html/Manifest
index 6f330b50c654e..a09f871d60ec4 100644
--- a/dev-python/minify-html/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/minify-html/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
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+DIST minify_html-0.18.1.tar.gz 96577 BLAKE2B 0382c712db11cbcb1d903d8405b2d60093ccabbd15e3160a710747a252deed5df17c0fd490d20a3cabe8da91fddb78eee263b61c29876b1f8bed3da36f8e4337 SHA512 fccec4fecb537a8c9c41ee6326408c414a541e542b13346b49c4c728692edb822f38754baecd9817350caf0cd7e929dccad6c3818646e9fdc8969f54762d9eac
diff --git a/dev-python/minify-html/minify-html-0.18.1.ebuild b/dev-python/minify-html/minify-html-0.18.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cbe3f5509585f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/minify-html/minify-html-0.18.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Copyright 2023-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=maturin
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3_11 python3_{11..14} )
+
+CRATES=""
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.88.0"
+
+inherit cargo distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extremely fast and smart HTML + JS + CSS minifier"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/wilsonzlin/minify-html/
+	https://pypi.org/project/minify-html/
+"
+SRC_URI+="
+	https://github.com/gentoo-crate-dist/minify-html/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-crates.tar.xz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD ISC MIT MPL-2.0
+	Unicode-3.0
+"
+# ring crate
+LICENSE+=" openssl"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/lib.*/py.*/site-packages/minify_html/minify_html.*.so"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e '/strip/d' Cargo.toml || die
+	# upstream is adding Cargo.lock into wheels, but we don't have it
+	# for crate dists, so we end up using newer versions
+	rm Cargo.lock || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_test_all() {
+	cargo_src_test
+}