diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch/default.nix
index 320d41068ccb..b9ae0b5b4b0b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, installShellFiles, makeWrapper, asciidoc
 , docbook_xml_dtd_45, git, docbook_xsl, libxml2, libxslt, coreutils, gawk
-, gnugrep, gnused, jq, nix }:
+, gnugrep, gnused, jq, nix, fetchpatch }:
 
 let
   binPath = lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gawk git gnugrep gnused jq nix ];
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     '';
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Fix input_type regex for macOS systems: https://github.com/msteen/nix-prefetch/pull/24
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/msteen/nix-prefetch/commit/08282891bdb108e886eaf39be2030ba1feda1cb1.patch";
+      sha256 = "1v6ask54ind6f3784pbncv0dfg6draaaicg0q46jfvp0lafms70x";
+    })
+  ];
+
   postPatch = ''
     lib=$out/lib/${pname}