diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 75e08f537..40c6cb485 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ Built-in services
    topics/stats
    topics/email
    topics/telnetconsole
-   topics/webservice
 
 :doc:`topics/logging`
     Learn how to use Python's builtin logging on Scrapy.
@@ -144,9 +143,6 @@ Built-in services
 :doc:`topics/telnetconsole`
     Inspect a running crawler using a built-in Python console.
 
-:doc:`topics/webservice`
-    Monitor and control a crawler using a web service.
-
 
 Solving specific problems
 =========================
diff --git a/docs/topics/webservice.rst b/docs/topics/webservice.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c4052c04..000000000
--- a/docs/topics/webservice.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-.. _topics-webservice:
-
-===========
-Web Service
-===========
-
-webservice has been moved into a separate project.
-
-It is hosted at:
-
-    https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-jsonrpc