diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/tf1.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/tf1.py
index 07cc81226..025d0877c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/tf1.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/tf1.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import re
-
 from .common import InfoExtractor