diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-download/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-download/default.nix
index e6f52acfd6ab..96588163dc24 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-download/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/requests-download/default.nix
@@ -1,33 +1,29 @@
 {
   lib,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  flit,
   requests,
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "requests-download";
   version = "0.1.2";
+  pyproject = true;
 
-  format = "wheel";
-
-  #src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-  #  url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/60/af/10f899f0574a81cbc511124c08d7c7dc46c20d4f956a6a3c793ad4330bb4/requests_download-0.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl";
-  #  sha256 = "1ballx1hljpdpyvqzqn79m0dc21z2smrnxk2ylb6dbpg5crrskcr";
-  #};
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    pname = "requests_download";
-    inherit version;
-    format = "wheel";
-    sha256 = "1ballx1hljpdpyvqzqn79m0dc21z2smrnxk2ylb6dbpg5crrskcr";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "takluyver";
+    repo = "requests_download";
+    tag = finalAttrs.version;
+    hash = "sha256-KLbROCvXNhvnoZHX5aGrXUI38oQuCM88ctIM/02Nmsc=";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests ];
+  build-system = [ flit ];
+  dependencies = [ requests ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Download files using requests and save them to a target path";
-    homepage = "https://www.github.com/takluyver/requests_download";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/takluyver/requests_download";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
   };
-}
+})