diff --git a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/vcrpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python2-modules/vcrpy/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ddd4015aad1e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python2-modules/vcrpy/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-{ buildPythonPackage
-, lib
-, six
-, fetchPypi
-, pyyaml
-, mock
-, contextlib2
-, wrapt
-, pytest
-, pytest-httpbin
-, yarl
-, pythonOlder
-, pythonAtLeast
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "vcrpy";
-  version = "3.0.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "21168d5ae14263a833d4b71acfd8278d8841114f24be1b4ab4a5719d0c7f07bc";
-  };
-
-  checkInputs = [
-    pytest
-    pytest-httpbin
-  ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    pyyaml
-    wrapt
-    six
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.3") [ contextlib2 mock ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (pythonAtLeast "3.4") [ yarl ];
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    py.test --ignore=tests/integration -k "not TestVCRConnection"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-  };
-}
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
index 54d51130e752..c2a6c890d9f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python2-packages.nix
@@ -166,8 +166,6 @@ with self; with super; {
 
   wsproto = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/wsproto { };
 
-  vcrpy = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/vcrpy { };
-
   zeek = disabled super.zeek;
 
   zipp = callPackage ../development/python2-modules/zipp { };