diff --git a/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.hash b/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.hash
index 72095ff6e5..9eecfbf9be 100644
--- a/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.hash
+++ b/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
-# Locally calculated
-sha256  7943f198c5cef2bdc121d847937fbe565daaa7d4daaf1b8de8ef5689812f481c  python-pyinotify-0.9.6.tar.gz
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/pyinotify/json
+md5  8e580fa1ff3971f94a6f81672b76c406  pyinotify-0.9.6.tar.gz
+sha256  9c998a5d7606ca835065cdabc013ae6c66eb9ea76a00a1e3bc6e0cfe2b4f71f4  pyinotify-0.9.6.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  97c96d577f761e23c7778bda2b163dba7b94e4defdd7873b7155bed252820608  COPYING
diff --git a/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.mk b/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.mk
index b4ea66299d..61666e8b49 100644
--- a/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.mk
+++ b/package/python-pyinotify/python-pyinotify.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_VERSION = 0.9.6
-PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_SITE = $(call github,seb-m,pyinotify,$(PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_VERSION))
+PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_SOURCE = pyinotify-$(PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e3/c0/fd5b18dde17c1249658521f69598f3252f11d9d7a980c5be8619970646e1
 PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_LICENSE = MIT
 PYTHON_PYINOTIFY_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING