diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/htmlparser.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/htmlparser.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0425d4340..000000000
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/htmlparser.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-"""
-HTMLParser-based link extractor
-"""
-import warnings
-from html.parser import HTMLParser
-from urllib.parse import urljoin
-
-from w3lib.url import safe_url_string
-from w3lib.html import strip_html5_whitespace
-
-from scrapy.link import Link
-from scrapy.utils.python import unique as unique_list
-from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
-
-
-class HtmlParserLinkExtractor(HTMLParser):
-
-    def __init__(self, tag="a", attr="href", process=None, unique=False,
-                 strip=True):
-        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
-
-        warnings.warn(
-            "HtmlParserLinkExtractor is deprecated and will be removed in "
-            "future releases. Please use scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor",
-            ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2,
-        )
-
-        self.scan_tag = tag if callable(tag) else lambda t: t == tag
-        self.scan_attr = attr if callable(attr) else lambda a: a == attr
-        self.process_attr = process if callable(process) else lambda v: v
-        self.unique = unique
-        self.strip = strip
-
-    def _extract_links(self, response_text, response_url, response_encoding):
-        self.reset()
-        self.feed(response_text)
-        self.close()
-
-        links = unique_list(self.links, key=lambda link: link.url) if self.unique else self.links
-
-        ret = []
-        base_url = urljoin(response_url, self.base_url) if self.base_url else response_url
-        for link in links:
-            if isinstance(link.url, str):
-                link.url = link.url.encode(response_encoding)
-            try:
-                link.url = urljoin(base_url, link.url)
-            except ValueError:
-                continue
-            link.url = safe_url_string(link.url, response_encoding)
-            link.text = link.text.decode(response_encoding)
-            ret.append(link)
-
-        return ret
-
-    def extract_links(self, response):
-        # wrapper needed to allow to work directly with text
-        return self._extract_links(response.body, response.url, response.encoding)
-
-    def reset(self):
-        HTMLParser.reset(self)
-
-        self.base_url = None
-        self.current_link = None
-        self.links = []
-
-    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
-        if tag == 'base':
-            self.base_url = dict(attrs).get('href')
-        if self.scan_tag(tag):
-            for attr, value in attrs:
-                if self.scan_attr(attr):
-                    if self.strip:
-                        value = strip_html5_whitespace(value)
-                    url = self.process_attr(value)
-                    link = Link(url=url)
-                    self.links.append(link)
-                    self.current_link = link
-
-    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
-        if self.scan_tag(tag):
-            self.current_link = None
-
-    def handle_data(self, data):
-        if self.current_link:
-            self.current_link.text = self.current_link.text + data
-
-    def matches(self, url):
-        """This extractor matches with any url, since
-        it doesn't contain any patterns"""
-        return True
diff --git a/tests/ignores.txt b/tests/ignores.txt
index 45cf6fb92..f6e0d6fbe 100644
--- a/tests/ignores.txt
+++ b/tests/ignores.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
 scrapy/linkextractors/regex.py
-scrapy/linkextractors/htmlparser.py
 scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/cookies.py
 scrapy/extensions/statsmailer.py
 scrapy/extensions/memusage.py