diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reactivedata/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reactivedata/default.nix
index b2bbd13fc904..3a5ed7c71803 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reactivedata/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/reactivedata/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, react, opaline }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, react, opaline }:
 
 if !lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.04"
 then throw "reactiveData is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-reactiveData";
   version = "0.2.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/ocsigen/reactiveData/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0jzagyp4zla28wykvcgqwd8df71ir0vb4s8akp02cfacd5v86sng";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ocsigen";
+    repo = "reactiveData";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "sha256-z2qDdmlMOSbAnQppsjbIMRzXUOP4sT09R0LRT65/6ks=";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild opaline ];