diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/direwolf/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/direwolf/default.nix
index fc8d0ec36c85..51a48db34e91 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/direwolf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/direwolf/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, alsaLib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, unzip, alsaLib }:
 let
   version = "1.2";
 in
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "direwolf-${version}";
   inherit version;
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://home.comcast.net/~wb2osz/Version%201.2/direwolf-${version}-src.zip";
-    sha256 = "0csl6harx7gmjmamxy0ylzhbamppphffisk8j33dc6g08k6rc77f";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "wb2osz";
+    repo = "direwolf";
+    rev = "8b81a32";
+    sha256 = "0r4fgdxghh292bzhqshr7zl5cg2lfsvlgmy4d5vqcli7x6qa1gcs";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [