diff --git a/pkgs/additional/feeds/default.nix b/pkgs/additional/feeds/default.nix
index 6d7a6c115..672027b66 100644
--- a/pkgs/additional/feeds/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/additional/feeds/default.nix
@@ -44,26 +44,4 @@ lib.makeScope newScope (self: with self; {
     pyPkgs = [ "feedsearch-crawler" ];
     srcPath = "update.py";
   };
-  init-feed = writeShellScript
-    "init-feed"
-    ''
-      # this is the `nix run '.#init-feed' <url>` script`
-      sources_dir=modules/data/feeds/sources
-      # prettify the URL, by default
-      name=$( \
-        echo "$1" \
-        | sed 's|^https://||' \
-        | sed 's|^http://||' \
-        | sed 's|^www\.||' \
-        | sed 's|/+$||' \
-      )
-      json_path="$sources_dir/$name/default.json"
-
-      # the name could have slashes in it, so we want to mkdir -p that
-      # but in a way where the least could go wrong.
-      pushd "$sources_dir"; mkdir -p "$name"; popd
-
-      ${update-feed}/bin/update.py "$name" "$json_path"
-      cat "$json_path"
-    '';
 })
diff --git a/scripts/init-feed b/scripts/init-feed
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3aaaf3ca5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/init-feed
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p feeds.update-feed -p gnused
+
+sources_dir=modules/data/feeds/sources
+# prettify the URL, by default
+name=$( \
+  echo "$1" \
+  | sed 's|^https://||' \
+  | sed 's|^http://||' \
+  | sed 's|^www\.||' \
+  | sed 's|/+$||' \
+)
+json_path="$sources_dir/$name/default.json"
+
+# the name could have slashes in it, so we want to mkdir -p that
+# but in a way where the least could go wrong.
+pushd "$sources_dir"; mkdir -p "$name"; popd
+
+# update.py: from `feeds.update-feed` (TODO: rename the binary!)
+update.py "$name" "$json_path"
+cat "$json_path"