diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
index 050b3873a00..68f0f0e938f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, numpy, pybind11}:
+{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, numpy, pkgs, pybind11 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "fasttext";
-  version = "0.9.1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "facebookresearch";
-    repo = "fastText";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1cbzz98qn8aypp4r5kwwwc9wiq5bwzv51kcsb15xjfs9lz8h3rii";
-  };
+  inherit (pkgs.fasttext) pname version src;
 
   buildInputs = [ pybind11 ];