diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/coursera-dl/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/coursera-dl/default.nix
index 2d719e321fe..fdc88b417e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/coursera-dl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/coursera-dl/default.nix
@@ -1,41 +1,23 @@
-{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, glibcLocales, pandoc, python3 }:
+{ lib
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchpatch
+, glibcLocales
+, pandoc
+, python3
+}:
 
-let
-  pythonPackages = python3.pkgs;
-
-in pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "coursera-dl";
   version = "0.11.5";
+  format = "setuptools";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "coursera-dl";
     repo = "coursera-dl";
-    rev = version;
+    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
     sha256 = "0akgwzrsx094jj30n4bd2ilwgva4qxx38v3bgm69iqfxi8c2bqbk";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ pandoc ];
-
-  buildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ glibcLocales ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ attrs beautifulsoup4 configargparse keyring pyasn1 requests six urllib3 ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = with pythonPackages; [ pytest mock ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace requirements.txt \
-      --replace '==' '>='
-  '';
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
-  '';
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    # requires dbus service
-    py.test -k 'not test_get_credentials_with_keyring' .
-  '';
-
   patches = [
     (fetchpatch {
       url = "https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/commit/c8796e567698be166cb15f54e095140c1a9b567e.patch";
@@ -47,9 +29,48 @@ in pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     })
   ];
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace requirements.txt \
+      --replace '==' '>='
+  '';
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    pandoc
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    glibcLocales
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    attrs
+    beautifulsoup4
+    configargparse
+    keyring
+    pyasn1
+    requests
+    six
+    urllib3
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    mock
+  ];
+
+  disabledTests = [
+    "test_get_credentials_with_keyring"
+    "test_quiz_exam_to_markup_converter"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "CLI for downloading Coursera.org videos and naming them";
     homepage = "https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/blob/0.11.5/CHANGELOG.md";
     license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ alexfmpe ];
     platforms = platforms.darwin ++ platforms.linux;