diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/notification/grove.py b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/notification/grove.py
index e6bf241bdaa..01ab5a39a40 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/notification/grove.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/notification/grove.py
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ def main():
     # Mission complete
     module.exit_json(msg="OK")
 
+#make sure urllib is available for do_notify_grove
+import urllib
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
 main()