diff --git a/scrapy/commands/deploy.py b/scrapy/commands/deploy.py
index 051ce661a..b7d989f69 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/deploy.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/deploy.py
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ import glob
 import tempfile
 import shutil
 import time
-import urllib2
 import netrc
 import json
+from six.moves.urllib import request
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse, urljoin
+from six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, check_call
 
 from w3lib.form import encode_multipart
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         except ImportError:
             raise UsageError("setuptools not installed")
 
-        urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(HTTPRedirectHandler))
+        request.install_opener(request.build_opener(HTTPRedirectHandler))
 
         if opts.list_targets:
             for name, target in _get_targets().items():
@@ -78,9 +79,9 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
 
         if opts.list_projects:
             target = _get_target(opts.list_projects)
-            req = urllib2.Request(_url(target, 'listprojects.json'))
+            req = request.Request(_url(target, 'listprojects.json'))
             _add_auth_header(req, target)
-            f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+            f = request.urlopen(req)
             projects = json.loads(f.read())['projects']
             print(os.linesep.join(projects))
             return
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ def _upload_egg(target, eggpath, project, version):
         'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' % boundary,
         'Content-Length': str(len(body)),
     }
-    req = urllib2.Request(url, body, headers)
+    req = request.Request(url, body, headers)
     _add_auth_header(req, target)
     _log('Deploying to project "%s" in %s' % (project, url))
     return _http_post(req)
@@ -207,14 +208,14 @@ def _add_auth_header(request, target):
 
 def _http_post(request):
     try:
-        f = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+        f = request.urlopen(request)
         _log("Server response (%s):" % f.code)
         print(f.read())
         return True
-    except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
+    except HTTPError as e:
         _log("Deploy failed (%s):" % e.code)
         print(e.read())
-    except urllib2.URLError as e:
+    except URLError as e:
         _log("Deploy failed: %s" % e)
 
 def _build_egg():
@@ -237,12 +238,12 @@ def _create_default_setup_py(**kwargs):
         f.write(_SETUP_PY_TEMPLATE % kwargs)
 
 
-class HTTPRedirectHandler(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler):
+class HTTPRedirectHandler(request.HTTPRedirectHandler):
 
     def redirect_request(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers, newurl):
         newurl = newurl.replace(' ', '%20')
         if code in (301, 307):
-            return urllib2.Request(newurl,
+            return request.Request(newurl,
                                    data=req.get_data(),
                                    headers=req.headers,
                                    origin_req_host=req.get_origin_req_host(),
@@ -250,9 +251,9 @@ class HTTPRedirectHandler(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler):
         elif code in (302, 303):
             newheaders = dict((k, v) for k, v in req.headers.items()
                               if k.lower() not in ("content-length", "content-type"))
-            return urllib2.Request(newurl,
+            return request.Request(newurl,
                                    headers=newheaders,
                                    origin_req_host=req.get_origin_req_host(),
                                    unverifiable=True)
         else:
-            raise urllib2.HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, headers, fp)
+            raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, headers, fp)
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpproxy.py b/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpproxy.py
index ce09655d0..48a877c91 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpproxy.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpproxy.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import base64
-from urllib import getproxies, unquote, proxy_bypass
-from urllib2 import _parse_proxy
+from six.moves.urllib.request import getproxies, proxy_bypass
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import unquote
+try:
+    from urllib2 import _parse_proxy
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib.request import _parse_proxy
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlunparse
 
 from scrapy.utils.httpobj import urlparse_cached
diff --git a/scrapy/http/request/form.py b/scrapy/http/request/form.py
index 02e77ce29..a4695f1a2 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/request/form.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/request/form.py
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ This module implements the FormRequest class which is a more convenient class
 See documentation in docs/topics/request-response.rst
 """
 
-import urllib
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin, urlencode
 import lxml.html
 import six
 from scrapy.http.request import Request
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ def _urlencode(seq, enc):
     values = [(unicode_to_str(k, enc), unicode_to_str(v, enc))
               for k, vs in seq
               for v in (vs if hasattr(vs, '__iter__') else [vs])]
-    return urllib.urlencode(values, doseq=1)
+    return urlencode(values, doseq=1)
 
 
 def _get_form(response, formname, formnumber, formxpath):
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/url.py b/scrapy/utils/url.py
index 36490a39d..5c645aaf0 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/url.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/url.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ to the w3lib.url module. Always import those from there instead.
 """
 import posixpath
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import (ParseResult, urlunparse, urldefrag,
-                                    urlparse, parse_qsl)
-import urllib
+                                    urlparse, parse_qsl, urlencode,
+                                    unquote)
 
 # scrapy.utils.url was moved to w3lib.url and import * ensures this move doesn't break old code
 from w3lib.url import *
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def canonicalize_url(url, keep_blank_values=True, keep_fragments=False,
     scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = parse_url(url)
     keyvals = parse_qsl(query, keep_blank_values)
     keyvals.sort()
-    query = urllib.urlencode(keyvals)
+    query = urlencode(keyvals)
     path = safe_url_string(_unquotepath(path)) or '/'
     fragment = '' if not keep_fragments else fragment
     return urlunparse((scheme, netloc.lower(), path, params, query, fragment))
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def canonicalize_url(url, keep_blank_values=True, keep_fragments=False,
 def _unquotepath(path):
     for reserved in ('2f', '2F', '3f', '3F'):
         path = path.replace('%' + reserved, '%25' + reserved.upper())
-    return urllib.unquote(path)
+    return unquote(path)
 
 
 def parse_url(url, encoding=None):
diff --git a/tests/mockserver.py b/tests/mockserver.py
index b73208c5c..d2ba92485 100644
--- a/tests/mockserver.py
+++ b/tests/mockserver.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
-import sys, time, random, urllib, os, json
+import sys, time, random, os, json
 import six
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 from twisted.web.server import Site, NOT_DONE_YET
 from twisted.web.resource import Resource
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ class Follow(LeafResource):
         args = request.args.copy()
         for nl in nlist:
             args["n"] = [str(nl)]
-            argstr = urllib.urlencode(args, doseq=True)
+            argstr = urlencode(args, doseq=True)
             s += "<a href='/follow?%s'>follow %d</a><br>" % (argstr, nl)
         s += """</body>"""
         request.write(s)