diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/oauthlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/oauthlib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..61259764becf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/oauthlib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchurl
+, mock
+, nose
+, unittest2
+, cryptography
+, blinker
+, pyjwt
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "2.0.0";
+  pname = "oauthlib";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/idan/oauthlib/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "02b645a8rqh4xfs1cmj8sss8wqppiadd1ndq3av1cdjz2frfqcjf";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ mock nose unittest2 ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ cryptography blinker pyjwt ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/idan/oauthlib;
+    downloadPage = https://github.com/idan/oauthlib/releases;
+    description = "A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ prikhi ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2dad961ca4fb..ca88619251ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2982,27 +2982,7 @@ in {
 
   oauth2client = callPackage ../development/python-modules/oauth2client { };
 
-  oauthlib = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "2.0.0";
-    name = "oauthlib-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "https://github.com/idan/oauthlib/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "02b645a8rqh4xfs1cmj8sss8wqppiadd1ndq3av1cdjz2frfqcjf";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = with self; [ mock nose unittest2 ];
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ cryptography blinker pyjwt ];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://github.com/idan/oauthlib;
-      downloadPage = https://github.com/idan/oauthlib/releases;
-      description = "A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic";
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ prikhi ];
-    };
-  };
-
+  oauthlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/oauthlib { };
 
   obfsproxy = buildPythonPackage ( rec {
     name = "obfsproxy-${version}";