diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
index 5670ce0..03772aa 100644
--- a/docs/usage.rst
+++ b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -618,8 +618,11 @@ Check APT repository
 
 This enables you to track the update of an arbitary APT repository, without needing of apt and an updated local APT database.
 
-apt
-  Name of the APT package.
+pkg
+  Name of the APT binary package.
+
+source_pkg
+  Name of the APT source package.
 
 mirror
   URL of the repository (defaults to http://deb.debian.org/debian/)
@@ -636,6 +639,8 @@ arch
 strip_release
   Strip the release part.
 
+Note that either pkg or source_pkg needs to be specified (but not both) or the item name will be used as package.
+
 Manually updating
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ::
diff --git a/nvchecker_source/apt.py b/nvchecker_source/apt.py
index 7610b88..20d40c4 100644
--- a/nvchecker_source/apt.py
+++ b/nvchecker_source/apt.py
@@ -22,13 +22,19 @@ async def get_url(url):
   return data.decode('utf-8')
 
 async def get_version(name, conf, *, cache, **kwargs):
-  pkg = conf.get('apt') or name
+  source_pkg = conf.get('source_pkg')
+  pkg = conf.get('pkg')
   mirror = conf.get('mirror', "http://deb.debian.org/debian/")
   suite = conf.get('suite', 'sid')
   repo = conf.get('repo', 'main')
   arch = conf.get('arch', 'amd64')
   strip_release = conf.get('strip_release', False)
 
+  if source_pkg and pkg:
+    raise GetVersionError('Setting both source_pkg and pkg is ambigious')
+  elif not source_pkg and not pkg:
+    pkg = name
+
   apt_release = await cache.get(APT_RELEASE_URL % (mirror, suite), get_url)
   for suffix in APT_PACKAGES_SUFFIX_PREFER:
     packages_path = APT_PACKAGES_PATH % (repo, arch, suffix)
@@ -41,7 +47,9 @@ async def get_version(name, conf, *, cache, **kwargs):
 
   pkg_found = False
   for line in apt_packages.split("\n"):
-    if line == "Package: " + pkg:
+    if pkg and line == "Package: " + pkg:
+      pkg_found = True
+    if source_pkg and line == "Source: " + source_pkg:
       pkg_found = True
     if pkg_found and line.startswith("Version: "):
       version = line[9:]
diff --git a/tests/test_apt.py b/tests/test_apt.py
index d145237..f39c030 100644
--- a/tests/test_apt.py
+++ b/tests/test_apt.py
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ async def test_apt(get_version):
         "source": "apt",
     }) == "0.1.7-1"
 
+@flaky(max_runs=10)
+async def test_apt_source_pkg(get_version):
+    assert await get_version("test", {
+        "source": "apt",
+        "source_pkg": "golang-github-dataence-porter2",
+    }) == "0.0~git20150829.56e4718-2"
+
 @flaky(max_runs=10)
 async def test_apt_strip_release(get_version):
     assert await get_version("sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw", {