diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 4d03bcbf07..a091fa7ec2 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 # this link must be referenced as :current_tarball:`z`
 extlinks = {
     'current_tarball': (
-        'https://github.com/downloads/facebook/tornado/tornado-%s.tar.g%%s' % version,
+'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/tornado/tornado-%s.tar.g%%s' % version,
         'tornado-%s.tar.g' % version),
     }
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b08d039138..69d44c4f4e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
     author="Facebook",
     author_email="python-tornado@googlegroups.com",
     url="http://www.tornadoweb.org/",
-    download_url="http://github.com/downloads/facebook/tornado/tornado-%s.tar.gz" % version,
     license="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0",
     description="Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.",
     classifiers=[