diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gc/gclient2nix/gclient2nix.py b/pkgs/by-name/gc/gclient2nix/gclient2nix.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import base64
+import json
+import os
+import subprocess
+import re
+import random
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import logging
+import click
+import click_log
+from typing import Optional
+from urllib.request import urlopen
+from joblib import Parallel, delayed, Memory
+from platformdirs import user_cache_dir
+
+sys.path.append("@depot_tools_checkout@")
+import gclient_eval
+import gclient_utils
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+click_log.basic_config(logger)
+
+nixpkgs_path = "@nixpkgs_path@"
+
+memory: Memory = Memory(user_cache_dir("gclient2nix"), verbose=0)
+
+def cache(mem, **mem_kwargs):
+    def cache_(f):
+        f.__module__ = "gclient2nix"
+        f.__qualname__ = f.__name__
+        return mem.cache(f, **mem_kwargs)
+    return cache_
+
+@cache(memory)
+def get_repo_hash(fetcher: str, args: dict) -> str:
+    expr = f"(import {nixpkgs_path} {{}}).gclient2nix.fetchers.{fetcher}{{"
+    for key, val in args.items():
+        expr += f'{key}="{val}";'
+    expr += "}"
+    cmd = ["nurl", "-H", "--expr", expr]
+    print(" ".join(cmd), file=sys.stderr)
+    out = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
+    return out.decode("utf-8").strip()
+
+
+class Repo:
+    fetcher: str
+    args: dict
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.deps: dict = {}
+
+    def get_deps(self, repo_vars: dict, path: str) -> None:
+        print(
+            "evaluating " + json.dumps(self, default=vars, sort_keys=True),
+            file=sys.stderr,
+        )
+
+        deps_file = self.get_file("DEPS")
+        evaluated = gclient_eval.Parse(deps_file, vars_override=repo_vars, filename="DEPS")
+
+        repo_vars = dict(evaluated.get("vars", {})) | repo_vars
+
+        prefix = f"{path}/" if evaluated.get("use_relative_paths", False) else ""
+
+        self.deps = {
+            prefix + dep_name: repo_from_dep(dep)
+            for dep_name, dep in evaluated.get("deps", {}).items()
+            if (
+                gclient_eval.EvaluateCondition(dep["condition"], repo_vars)
+                if "condition" in dep
+                else True
+            )
+            and repo_from_dep(dep) != None
+        }
+
+        for key in evaluated.get("recursedeps", []):
+            dep_path = prefix + key
+            if dep_path in self.deps:
+                self.deps[dep_path].get_deps(repo_vars, dep_path)
+
+    def eval(self) -> None:
+        self.get_deps(
+            {
+                **{
+                f"checkout_{platform}": platform == "linux"
+                for platform in ["ios", "chromeos", "android", "mac", "win", "linux"]
+                },
+                **{
+                f"checkout_{arch}": True
+                for arch in ["x64", "arm64", "arm", "x86", "mips", "mips64", "ppc"]
+                },
+            },
+            "",
+        )
+
+    def prefetch(self) -> None:
+        self.hash = get_repo_hash(self.fetcher, self.args)
+
+    def prefetch_all(self) -> int:
+        return sum(
+            [dep.prefetch_all() for [_, dep] in self.deps.items()],
+            [delayed(self.prefetch)()],
+        )
+
+    def flatten_repr(self) -> dict:
+        return {"fetcher": self.fetcher, "attrs": {**({"hash": self.hash} if hasattr(self, "hash") else {}), **self.args}}
+
+    def flatten(self, path: str) -> dict:
+        out = {path: self.flatten_repr()}
+        for dep_path, dep in self.deps.items():
+            out |= dep.flatten(dep_path)
+        return out
+
+    def get_file(self, filepath: str) -> str:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class GitRepo(Repo):
+    def __init__(self, url: str, rev: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.fetcher = "fetchgit"
+        self.args = {
+            "url": url,
+            "rev": rev,
+        }
+
+
+class GitHubRepo(Repo):
+    def __init__(self, owner: str, repo: str, rev: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.fetcher = "fetchFromGitHub"
+        self.args = {
+            "owner": owner,
+            "repo": repo,
+            "rev": rev,
+        }
+
+    def get_file(self, filepath: str) -> str:
+        return (
+            urlopen(
+                f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{self.args['owner']}/{self.args['repo']}/{self.args['rev']}/{filepath}"
+            )
+            .read()
+            .decode("utf-8")
+        )
+
+
+class GitilesRepo(Repo):
+    def __init__(self, url: str, rev: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.fetcher = "fetchFromGitiles"
+        self.args = {
+            "url": url,
+            "rev": rev,
+        }
+
+        # Quirk: Chromium source code exceeds the Hydra output limit
+        # We prefer deleting test data over recompressing the sources into a
+        # tarball, because the NAR will be compressed after the size check
+        # anyways, so recompressing is more like bypassing the size limit
+        # (making it count the compressed instead of uncompressed size)
+        # rather than complying with it.
+        if url == "https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git":
+            self.args["postFetch"] = "rm -r $out/third_party/blink/web_tests; "
+            self.args["postFetch"] += "rm -r $out/content/test/data; "
+            self.args["postFetch"] += "rm -rf $out/courgette/testdata; "
+            self.args["postFetch"] += "rm -r $out/extensions/test/data; "
+            self.args["postFetch"] += "rm -r $out/media/test/data; "
+
+    def get_file(self, filepath: str) -> str:
+        return base64.b64decode(
+            urlopen(
+                f"{self.args['url']}/+/{self.args['rev']}/{filepath}?format=TEXT"
+            ).read()
+        ).decode("utf-8")
+
+
+
+def repo_from_dep(dep: dict) -> Optional[Repo]:
+    if "url" in dep:
+        url, rev = gclient_utils.SplitUrlRevision(dep["url"])
+
+        search_object = re.search(r"https://github.com/(.+)/(.+?)(\.git)?$", url)
+        if search_object:
+            return GitHubRepo(search_object.group(1), search_object.group(2), rev)
+
+        if re.match(r"https://.+\.googlesource.com", url):
+            return GitilesRepo(url, rev)
+
+        return GitRepo(url, rev)
+    else:
+        # Not a git dependency; skip
+        return None
+
+
+@click.group()
+def cli() -> None:
+    """gclient2nix"""
+    pass
+
+
+@cli.command("eval", help="Evaluate and print the dependency tree of a gclient project")
+@click.argument("url", required=True, type=str)
+@click.option("--root", default="src", help="Root path, where the given url is placed", type=str)
+def eval(url: str, root: str) -> None:
+    repo = repo_from_dep({"url": url})
+    repo.eval()
+    print(json.dumps(repo.flatten(root), sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+
+
+@cli.command("generate", help="Generate a dependencies description for a gclient project")
+@click.argument("url", required=True, type=str)
+@click.option("--root", default="src", help="Root path, where the given url is placed", type=str)
+def generate(url: str, root: str) -> None:
+    repo = repo_from_dep({"url": url})
+    repo.eval()
+    tasks = repo.prefetch_all()
+    random.shuffle(tasks)
+    task_results = {
+        n[0]: n[1]
+        for n in Parallel(n_jobs=20, require="sharedmem", return_as="generator")(tasks)
+        if n != None
+    }
+    print(json.dumps(repo.flatten(root), sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    cli()
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gc/gclient2nix/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gc/gclient2nix/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..17662ab5d714
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+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gc/gclient2nix/package.nix
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+{
+  lib,
+  python3,
+  runCommand,
+  makeWrapper,
+  path,
+  fetchgit,
+  nurl,
+}:
+
+let
+  python = python3.withPackages (
+    ps: with ps; [
+      joblib
+      platformdirs
+      click
+      click-log
+    ]
+  );
+
+in
+
+runCommand "gclient2nix"
+  {
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+    buildInputs = [ python ];
+
+    # substitutions
+    nixpkgs_path = if builtins.pathExists (path + "/.git") then lib.cleanSource path else path;
+    depot_tools_checkout = fetchgit {
+      url = "https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools";
+      rev = "452fe3be37f78fbecefa1b4b0d359531bcd70d0d";
+      hash = "sha256-8IiJOm0FLa/u1Vd96tb33Ruj4IUTCeYgBpTk88znhPw=";
+    };
+  }
+  ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    substituteAll ${./gclient2nix.py} $out/bin/gclient2nix
+    chmod u+x $out/bin/gclient2nix
+    patchShebangs $out/bin/gclient2nix
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/gclient2nix --set PATH "${lib.makeBinPath [ nurl ]}"
+  ''