diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-openapi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-openapi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a800694ad942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-openapi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, setuptools_scm
+, pyyaml
+, jsonschema
+, sphinxcontrib_httpdomain
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "sphinxcontrib-openapi";
+  version = "0.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0fyniq37nnmhrk4j7mzvg6vfcpb624hb9x70g6mccyw4xrnhadv6";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [setuptools_scm pyyaml jsonschema sphinxcontrib_httpdomain];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/ikalnytskyi/sphinxcontrib-openapi;
+    description = "OpenAPI (fka Swagger) spec renderer for Sphinx";
+    license = licenses.bsd0;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b546ddd7eadb..602955278df7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3880,18 +3880,7 @@ in {
 
   sphinxcontrib-blockdiag = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-blockdiag { };
 
-  sphinxcontrib-openapi = buildPythonPackage (rec {
-    name = "sphinxcontrib-openapi-0.3.0";
-
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/s/sphinxcontrib-openapi/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0fyniq37nnmhrk4j7mzvg6vfcpb624hb9x70g6mccyw4xrnhadv6";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [setuptools_scm pyyaml jsonschema sphinxcontrib_httpdomain];
-  });
+  sphinxcontrib-openapi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sphinxcontrib-openapi { };
 
   sphinxcontrib_httpdomain = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "sphinxcontrib-httpdomain-1.5.0";