diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tvdb_api/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tvdb_api/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..758c699d446
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tvdb_api/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, requests-cache
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "tvdb_api";
+  version = "1.10";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0hq887yb3rwc0rcw32lh7xdkk9bbrqy274aspzqkd6f7dyhp73ih";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests-cache ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Simple to use TVDB (thetvdb.com) API in Python.";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api";
+    license = licenses.unlicense;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6879d5d5330..5c68310b67c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4593,24 +4593,7 @@ in {
 
   word2vec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/word2vec { };
 
-  tvdb_api = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "tvdb_api-${version}";
-    version = "1.10";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/t/tvdb_api/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0hq887yb3rwc0rcw32lh7xdkk9bbrqy274aspzqkd6f7dyhp73ih";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests-cache ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Simple to use TVDB (thetvdb.com) API in Python.";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api";
-      license = licenses.unlicense;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
-    };
-  };
+  tvdb_api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tvdb_api { };
 
   tvnamer = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "tvnamer-${version}";