diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..881895ba6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/nbconvert/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pytest
+, nose
+, entrypoints
+, bleach
+, mistune
+, jinja2
+, pygments
+, traitlets
+, testpath
+, jupyter_core
+, nbformat
+, nbconvert
+, ipykernel
+, pandocfilters
+, tornado
+, jupyter_client
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "nbconvert";
+  version = "5.2.1";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "9ed68ec7fe90a8672b43795b29ea91cc75ea355c83debc83ebd12171521ec274";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose pytest ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    entrypoints bleach mistune jinja2 pygments traitlets testpath
+    jupyter_core nbformat ipykernel pandocfilters tornado jupyter_client
+  ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    nosetests -v
+  '';
+
+  # PermissionError. Likely due to being in a chroot
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Converting Jupyter Notebooks";
+    homepage = http://jupyter.org/;
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 221d1f40a69..8e6ba055206 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -14806,33 +14806,7 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
-  nbconvert = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "5.1.1";
-    name = "nbconvert-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/n/nbconvert/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "847731bc39829d0eb1e15a450ac98c71730e3598e53683d4d76a3f3b3fc5017d";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [nose ipykernel ];
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ entrypoints bleach mistune jinja2 pygments traitlets testpath jupyter_core nbformat ipykernel pandocfilters tornado jupyter_client];
-
-    checkPhase = ''
-      nosetests -v
-    '';
-
-    # PermissionError. Likely due to being in a chroot
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Converting Jupyter Notebooks";
-      homepage = http://jupyter.org/;
-      license = licenses.bsd3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
-    };
-  };
+  nbconvert = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nbconvert { };
 
   nbformat = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nbformat { };