From 03081abcf66f49e4c83090f3bef3f8dd627ef2a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Chaves <adrian@zyte.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:27:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove win-precise-time support, probably not worth it for
 this use case

---
 docs/topics/practices.rst          | 10 ----------
 scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py |  7 +------
 tox.ini                            |  2 --
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/topics/practices.rst b/docs/topics/practices.rst
index c54d0c85f..1721a752f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/practices.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/practices.rst
@@ -436,16 +436,6 @@ in memory. You could:
 - Check that your code doesn't hold strong references to
   :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` objects longer than necessary.
 
-.. note::
-
-    On Windows, Scrapy uses the `win-precise-time
-    <https://pypi.org/project/win-precise-time/>`_ package when available to
-    measure backout durations with higher precision. Install it with:
-
-    .. code-block:: shell
-
-        pip install win-precise-time
-
 .. _bans:
 
 Avoiding getting banned
diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py
index a1fab7756..50ccba7d3 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/__init__.py
@@ -6,15 +6,10 @@ from collections import deque
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from datetime import datetime
 from logging import getLogger
-from time import monotonic
+from time import monotonic, time
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 from warnings import warn
 
-try:
-    from win_precise_time import time  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
-except ImportError:
-    from time import time  # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
-
 from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred, inlineCallbacks
 from twisted.python.failure import Failure
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 77eb2dd37..6ee686aaa 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ deps =
     ipython
     robotexclusionrulesparser
     uvloop; platform_system != "Windows" and implementation_name != "pypy"
-    win-precise-time; sys_platform == "win32"
     zstandard; implementation_name != "pypy"  # optional for HTTP compress downloader middleware tests
 
 [testenv:min-extra-deps]
@@ -196,7 +195,6 @@ deps =
     ipython==7.1.0
     robotexclusionrulesparser==1.6.2
     uvloop==0.16.0; platform_system != "Windows" and implementation_name != "pypy"
-    win-precise-time; sys_platform == "win32"
     zstandard==0.16.0; implementation_name != "pypy"
 setenv =
     {[min]setenv}