diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6840f461cc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/html2text/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "html2text";
+  version = "2016.9.19";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "554ef5fd6c6cf6e3e4f725a62a3e9ec86a0e4d33cd0928136d1c79dbeb7b2d55";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Turn HTML into equivalent Markdown-structured text";
+    homepage = https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/;
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 52f91d46fd8..5bfe34ff0c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4401,20 +4401,7 @@ in {
 
   termcolor = callPackage ../development/python-modules/termcolor { };
 
-  html2text = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "html2text-2016.9.19";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/h/html2text/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "554ef5fd6c6cf6e3e4f725a62a3e9ec86a0e4d33cd0928136d1c79dbeb7b2d55";
-    };
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Turn HTML into equivalent Markdown-structured text";
-      homepage = https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/;
-      license = licenses.gpl3;
-    };
-  };
+  html2text = callPackage ../development/python-modules/html2text { };
 
   pychart = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychart {};