diff --git a/src/calibre/scraper/simple_backend.py b/src/calibre/scraper/simple_backend.py
index 3d393eb837..ca389cea6f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/scraper/simple_backend.py
+++ b/src/calibre/scraper/simple_backend.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from qt.core import QApplication, QEventLoop, QUrl
 from qt.webengine import QWebEnginePage, QWebEngineProfile, QWebEngineSettings
 
 from calibre.constants import cache_dir
-from calibre.gui2.webengine import create_script, insert_scripts
+from calibre.utils.webengine import create_script, insert_scripts
 
 
 def canonicalize_qurl(qurl):