diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 57b020a5..9fac6bcb 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ export(install_github)
 export(install_gitlab)
 export(install_local)
 export(install_remote)
+export(install_runiverse)
 export(install_svn)
 export(install_url)
 export(install_version)
diff --git a/R/install-runiverse.R b/R/install-runiverse.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad31ae89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/install-runiverse.R
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#' Install a package from R-Universe
+#'
+#' `install_runiverse()` retrieves the canonical universe for a CRAN package
+#' using the R-Universe API,
+#' then downloads and installs the package from that universe.
+#' If the package has a `Remotes` field,
+#' dependencies will be installed first from the appropriate remote repositories
+#' using the same function.
+#'
+#' @param package The package name to install.
+#' @param universe The R-Universe to use, infer from the package if `NULL`.
+#' @param ... Additional arguments passed to `install_cran()`.
+#' @param linux_distro A string specifying the Linux distribution
+#'   for the installation of binary packages on Linux.
+#' @return A character vector of the names of installed packages, invisibly.
+#' @family package installation
+#' @export
+#' @examples
+#' \dontrun{
+#' # From GitHub
+#' install_runiverse("dplyr")
+#'
+#' # From GitLab
+#' install_runiverse("iemiscdata")
+#'
+#' # From Bitbucket
+#' install_runiverse("argparser")
+#' }
+install_runiverse <- function(package, universe = NULL, ..., linux_distro = NULL) {
+  if (...length() > 0) {
+    stop(
+      "Additional arguments (...) are not supported by install_runiverse()",
+      call. = FALSE
+    )
+  }
+
+  if (is.null(universe)) {
+    universe <- get_runiverse_for_package(package)
+  } else if (length(universe) != 1 || !is.character(universe)) {
+    stop("'universe' must be a single string", call. = FALSE)
+  }
+
+  # https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/618#issuecomment-3333533114
+  # https://docs.r-universe.dev/install/binaries.html#how-to-install-linux-binary-packages
+  if (is.null(linux_distro)) {
+    repo <- paste0("https://", universe, ".r-universe.dev/", package)
+  } else {
+    repo <- paste0(
+      "https://", universe, ".r-universe.dev/", package,
+      "/bin/linux/", linux_distro, "-", R.version$arch, "/",
+      substr(getRversion(), 1, 3)
+    )
+  }
+
+  tempdir <- tempfile("remotes")
+  dir.create(tempdir)
+  on.exit(unlink(tempdir, recursive = TRUE), add = TRUE)
+
+  # available.packages() does not work for the repo
+  download <- utils::download.packages(package, destdir = tempdir, repos = repo)[, 2]
+
+  untar_success <- utils::untar(download, file.path(package, "DESCRIPTION"), exdir = tempdir)
+  if (untar_success != 0) {
+    stop("Failed to extract package DESCRIPTION from downloaded tarball", call. = FALSE)
+  }
+
+  desc_path <- file.path(tempdir, package, "DESCRIPTION")
+  desc <- read_dcf(desc_path)
+
+  installed <- character()
+
+  if (!is.null(desc$Remotes)) {
+    message("Installing dependencies from Remotes field: ", desc$Remotes)
+
+    remotes <- strsplit(desc$Remotes, "[ \n]*,[ \n]*")[[1]]
+    org_pkg <- re_match(remotes, "^(?:github::)?(?<org>[^/:]+)/(?<pkg>[^/@#]+)$")
+
+    for (i in seq_len(nrow(org_pkg))) {
+      if (is.na(org_pkg$.match[[i]])) {
+        install_remote(org_pkg$.text[[i]])
+      } else {
+        install_runiverse(org_pkg$pkg[[i]], universe = org_pkg$org[[i]], linux_distro = linux_distro)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  # We already downloaded but can't provide a correct `type` argument
+  install_cran(package, repos = repo, dependencies = FALSE)
+}
+
+get_runiverse_for_package <- function(package) {
+  # Can't use httr2, only curl
+  if (!requireNamespace("curl", quietly = TRUE)) {
+    stop("Package 'curl' is required to install from R-Universe", call. = FALSE)
+  }
+
+  handle <- curl::new_handle()
+  curl::handle_setheaders(handle, `User-Agent` = "r-lib/remotes")
+
+  packages_raw <- curl::curl_fetch_memory(
+    paste0("https://r-universe.dev/api/search?q=package:", package)
+  )
+
+  packages <- json$parse(rawToChar(packages_raw$content))
+
+  results <- packages$results
+  if (length(results) == 0) {
+    stop(sprintf("Package '%s' not found on R-Universe", package), call. = FALSE)
+  }
+
+  packages$results[[1]]$"_user"
+}