diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/sponsorblock.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/sponsorblock.nix
index 2db4cf53d004..b43ce6afdff8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/sponsorblock.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/sponsorblock.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenvNoCC, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, python3 }:
+{ lib, stdenvNoCC, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, python3, nix-update-script }:
 
 # Usage: `pkgs.mpv.override { scripts = [ pkgs.mpvScripts.sponsorblock ]; }`
 stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
@@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
 
   passthru = {
     scriptName = "sponsorblock.lua";
-    updateScript = ./update-sponsorblock.sh;
+    updateScript = nix-update-script {
+      attrPath = "mpvScripts.sponsorblock";
+      extraArgs = [ "--version=branch" ];
+    };
   };
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/update-sponsorblock.sh b/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/update-sponsorblock.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b4888365a6f3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mpv/scripts/update-sponsorblock.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#!nix-shell -i bash -p common-updater-scripts git jq nix nix-prefetch-git
-git_url='https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock.git'
-git_branch='master'
-git_dir='/var/tmp/mpv_sponsorblock.git'
-nix_file="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/sponsorblock.nix"
-pkg='mpvScripts.sponsorblock'
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-info() {
-    if [ -t 2 ]; then
-        set -- '\033[32m%s\033[39m\n' "$@"
-    else
-        set -- '%s\n' "$@"
-    fi
-    printf "$@" >&2
-}
-
-old_rev=$(nix-instantiate --eval --strict --json -A "$pkg.src.rev" | jq -r)
-old_version=$(nix-instantiate --eval --strict --json -A "$pkg.version" | jq -r)
-today=$(LANG=C date -u +'%Y-%m-%d')
-
-info "fetching $git_url..."
-if [ ! -d "$git_dir" ]; then
-    git init --initial-branch="$git_branch" "$git_dir"
-    git -C "$git_dir" remote add origin "$git_url"
-fi
-git -C "$git_dir" fetch origin "$git_branch"
-
-# use latest commit before today, we should not call the version *today*
-# because there might still be commits coming
-# use the day of the latest commit we picked as version
-new_rev=$(git -C "$git_dir" log -n 1 --format='format:%H' --before="${today}T00:00:00Z" "origin/$git_branch")
-new_version="unstable-$(git -C "$git_dir" log -n 1 --format='format:%cs' "$new_rev")"
-info "latest commit before $today: $new_rev"
-
-if [ "$new_rev" = "$old_rev" ]; then
-    info "$pkg is up-to-date."
-    exit
-fi
-
-new_sha256=$(nix-prefetch-git --rev "$new_rev" "$git_dir" | jq -r .sha256)
-update-source-version "$pkg" \
-    "$new_version" \
-    "$new_sha256" \
-    --rev="$new_rev"
-git add "$nix_file"
-git commit --verbose --message "$pkg: $old_version -> $new_version"
diff --git a/pkgs/common-updater/nix-update.nix b/pkgs/common-updater/nix-update.nix
index 13b85bf52fff..bb547302b79a 100644
--- a/pkgs/common-updater/nix-update.nix
+++ b/pkgs/common-updater/nix-update.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 { nix-update }:
 
-{ attrPath }:
+{ attrPath
+, extraArgs ? []
+}:
 
-[ "${nix-update}/bin/nix-update" attrPath ]
+[ "${nix-update}/bin/nix-update" ] ++ extraArgs ++ [ attrPath ]