diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/filebytes/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/filebytes/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3dbcbe594425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/filebytes/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "filebytes";
+  version = "0.9.12";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "6cd1c4ca823f6541c963a317e55382609789802dedad08209f4d038369e3f0ac";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://scoding.de/filebytes-introduction";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    description = "Scripts to parse ELF, PE, Mach-O and OAT (Android Runtime)";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ bennofs ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 1cbaad29e910..28517aec0cc1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2384,20 +2384,7 @@ in {
 
   pycodestyle = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pycodestyle { };
 
-  filebytes = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "filebytes-0.9.12";
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/f/filebytes/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "6cd1c4ca823f6541c963a317e55382609789802dedad08209f4d038369e3f0ac";
-    };
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ ];
-    meta = with pkgs.stdenv.lib; {
-      homepage = "https://scoding.de/filebytes-introduction";
-      license = licenses.gpl2;
-      description = "Scripts to parse ELF, PE, Mach-O and OAT (Android Runtime)";
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ bennofs ];
-    };
-  };
+  filebytes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/filebytes { };
 
   filelock = callPackage ../development/python-modules/filelock {};