diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hawkauthlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hawkauthlib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..46e49ba6b88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hawkauthlib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchgit
+, requests
+, webob
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "hawkauthlib";
+  version = "0.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = https://github.com/mozilla-services/hawkauthlib.git;
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0mr1mpx4j9q7sch9arwfvpysnpf2p7ijy7072wilxm8pnj0bwvsi";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests webob ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/mozilla-services/hawkauthlib;
+    description = "Hawk Access Authentication protocol";
+    license = licenses.mpl20;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 961c4e3dfb1..6c14e4ccedb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2438,17 +2438,7 @@ in {
 
   gunicorn = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gunicorn { };
 
-  hawkauthlib = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "hawkauthlib-${version}";
-    version = "0.1.1";
-    src = pkgs.fetchgit {
-      url = https://github.com/mozilla-services/hawkauthlib.git;
-      rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-      sha256 = "0mr1mpx4j9q7sch9arwfvpysnpf2p7ijy7072wilxm8pnj0bwvsi";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests webob ];
-  };
+  hawkauthlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hawkauthlib { };
 
   hdbscan = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hdbscan { };