diff --git a/googleapiclient/_helpers.py b/googleapiclient/_helpers.py
index 17b8a17151..c63d08448e 100644
--- a/googleapiclient/_helpers.py
+++ b/googleapiclient/_helpers.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 import functools
 import inspect
 import logging
-import urllib
+import urllib.parse
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/googleapiclient/discovery.py b/googleapiclient/discovery.py
index 16e02bb4ac..4e92b2cc1b 100644
--- a/googleapiclient/discovery.py
+++ b/googleapiclient/discovery.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 import mimetypes
 import os
 import re
-import urllib
+import urllib.parse
 
 import google.api_core.client_options
 from google.auth.exceptions import MutualTLSChannelError
diff --git a/googleapiclient/http.py b/googleapiclient/http.py
index d5d2b737e6..5aad076854 100644
--- a/googleapiclient/http.py
+++ b/googleapiclient/http.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 import random
 import socket
 import time
-import urllib
+import urllib.parse
 import uuid
 
 import httplib2
diff --git a/googleapiclient/model.py b/googleapiclient/model.py
index dee1cb7f37..52363e79b2 100644
--- a/googleapiclient/model.py
+++ b/googleapiclient/model.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 import platform
-import urllib
+import urllib.parse
 import warnings
 
 from googleapiclient import version as googleapiclient_version