diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdfkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdfkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c797c57c40f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdfkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pdfkit";
+  version = "0.5.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    extension = "zip";
+    sha256 = "1p1m6gp51ql3wzjs2iwds8sc3hg1i48yysii9inrky6qc3s6q5vf";
+  };
+
+  # tests are not distributed
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfkit;
+    description = "Wkhtmltopdf python wrapper to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine and qt";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 098b4e9acb1..2fd95d1970c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3133,25 +3133,7 @@ in {
 
   pexpect = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pexpect { };
 
-  pdfkit = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "pdfkit-${version}";
-    version = "0.5.0";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/p/pdfkit/${name}.zip";
-      sha256 = "1p1m6gp51ql3wzjs2iwds8sc3hg1i48yysii9inrky6qc3s6q5vf";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ ];
-    # tests are not distributed
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfkit;
-      description = "Wkhtmltopdf python wrapper to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine and qt";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  };
+  pdfkit = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pdfkit { };
 
     periodictable = callPackage ../development/python-modules/periodictable { };