diff --git a/scrapy/commands/shell.py b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
index 1e8427753..25ceb5f99 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Scrapy Shell
 See documentation in docs/topics/shell.rst
 """
 
-import re
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 from threading import Thread
 from w3lib.url import any_to_uri