diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index d0036443f..c6d0ab9f7 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import re
-
 from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule