diff --git a/swh/web/client/client.py b/swh/web/client/client.py
--- a/swh/web/client/client.py
+++ b/swh/web/client/client.py
@@ -410,6 +410,26 @@
             else:
                 done = True
 
+    def last_visit(self, origin: str, typify: bool = True) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """Return the last visit of an origin.
+
+        Args:
+            origin: the URL of a software origin
+            typify: if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever
+                possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
+
+        Returns:
+            The last visit for that origin
+
+        Raises:
+            requests.HTTPError: if HTTP request fails
+
+        """
+        query = f"origin/{origin}/visit/latest/"
+        r = self._call(query, http_method="get")
+        visit = r.json()
+        return typify_json(visit, ORIGIN_VISIT) if typify else visit
+
     def known(
         self, swhids: Iterator[SWHIDish], **req_args
     ) -> Dict[CoreSWHID, Dict[Any, Any]]:
diff --git a/swh/web/client/tests/api_data.py b/swh/web/client/tests/api_data.py
--- a/swh/web/client/tests/api_data.py
+++ b/swh/web/client/tests/api_data.py
@@ -7718,6 +7718,19 @@
     "snapshot_url": "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/100de51846f317e6ab48da79d985cefa6fdefe42/"
   }
 ]
+    """,  # NoQA: E501  # NoQA: E501
+    "origin/https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/visit/latest/": r"""
+{
+  "origin": "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs",
+  "visit": 128,
+  "date": "2021-09-02T20:20:31.231786+00:00",
+  "status": "full",
+  "snapshot": "6e1fe7858066ff1a6905080ac6503a3a12b84f59",
+  "type": "git",
+  "metadata": {},
+  "origin_url": "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/get/",
+  "snapshot_url": "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/6e1fe7858066ff1a6905080ac6503a3a12b84f59/"
+}
     """,  # NoQA: E501  # NoQA: E501
     "origin/search/foo%20bar%20baz%20qux/?with_visit=true": r"""
 [
diff --git a/swh/web/client/tests/gen-api-data.sh b/swh/web/client/tests/gen-api-data.sh
--- a/swh/web/client/tests/gen-api-data.sh
+++ b/swh/web/client/tests/gen-api-data.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Copyright (C) 2020  The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2021  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 urls="${urls} snapshot/cabcc7d7bf639bbe1cc3b41989e1806618dd5764/?branches_count=1000&branches_from=refs/tags/v3.0-rc7"
 urls="${urls} origin/https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/visits/?last_visit=50&per_page=10"
 urls="${urls} origin/https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/visits/?last_visit=40&per_page=10"
+urls="${urls} origin/https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/visit/latest/"
 urls="${urls} origin/search/foo%20bar%20baz%20qux/?with_visit=true"
 urls="${urls} origin/search/python/?limit=5"
 
diff --git a/swh/web/client/tests/test_web_api_client.py b/swh/web/client/tests/test_web_api_client.py
--- a/swh/web/client/tests/test_web_api_client.py
+++ b/swh/web/client/tests/test_web_api_client.py
@@ -151,6 +151,17 @@
     assert visits[7]["snapshot"] == CoreSWHID.from_string(snapshot_swhid)
 
 
+def test_get_last_visit(web_api_client, web_api_mock):
+    visit = web_api_client.last_visit("https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs")
+    assert visit is not None
+
+    timestamp = parse_date("2021-09-02 20:20:31.231786+00:00")
+    assert visit["date"] == timestamp
+
+    snapshot_swhid = "swh:1:snp:6e1fe7858066ff1a6905080ac6503a3a12b84f59"
+    assert visit["snapshot"] == CoreSWHID.from_string(snapshot_swhid)
+
+
 def test_origin_search(web_api_client, web_api_mock):
     limited_results = list(web_api_client.origin_search("python", limit=5))
     assert len(limited_results) == 5