diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/stitcher.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/stitcher.py
index 1866b5ee5..c643173df 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/stitcher.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/stitcher.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-import re
 
 
 class StitcherIE(InfoExtractor):