diff --git a/backend/src/lm/batch/batch.py b/backend/src/lm/batch/batch.py
deleted file mode 100644
index ce976c11..00000000
--- a/backend/src/lm/batch/batch.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# from src.lm.prompts import SYSPROMPT
-# from typing import List
-
-
-# def generate_batch_prompts() -> List[str]:
-#     articles = get_articles()
-#     batch_prompts = []
-#     id = 0
-#     for article in articles:
-#         request_id = f"request_{id}"
-#         id += 1
-#         batch_prompts.append(
-#             {
-#                 "custom_id": request_id,
-#                 "method": "POST",
-#                 "url": "/v1/chat/completions",
-#                 "body": {
-#                     "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
-#                     "messages": [
-#                         {"role": "system", "content": SYSPROMPT},
-#                         {
-#                             "role": "user",
-#                             "content": article.get("fields").get("bodyText"),
-#                         },
-#                     ],
-#                     # "metadata": {
-#                     #     "article_id": f"article_{id}",
-#                     # },
-#                     "max_tokens": 1000,
-#                 },
-#             }
-#         )
-
-#     with open("batch_prompts.jsonl", "w") as jsonl_file:
-#         for item in batch_prompts:
-#             jsonl_file.write(json.dumps(item) + "\n")
diff --git a/backend/src/lm/generate_events.py b/backend/src/lm/generate_events.py
index 04bd7507..c6e081a3 100644
--- a/backend/src/lm/generate_events.py
+++ b/backend/src/lm/generate_events.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 from src.scrapers.guardian.get_articles import get_articles
 from typing import List
 from pydantic import BaseModel
-from src.scrapers.guardian.scrape import query_page
 from src.common.constants import LANGCHAIN_API_KEY
 from src.common.constants import LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2
 from src.common.constants import OPENAI_API_KEY
diff --git a/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py b/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
index 7a24ea66..0704b21d 100644
--- a/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
+++ b/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 import httpx
-import json
-import argparse
-import time
 
 from src.common.constants import GUARDIAN_API_KEY