diff --git a/archivebox/.flake8 b/.flake8
similarity index 100%
rename from archivebox/.flake8
rename to .flake8
diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a15793cd..9a75043b 100644
--- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pip install -e .[sonic,ldap]
 
 ```
 pytest -s --basetemp=tests/out --ignore=archivebox/vendor
-flake8 archivebox/ --config archivebox/.flake8 --count --show-source --statistics
+flake8 archivebox/ --count --show-source --statistics
 ```
 
 ### Getting Help
diff --git a/archivebox/LICENSE b/archivebox/LICENSE
deleted file mode 120000
index ea5b6064..00000000
--- a/archivebox/LICENSE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../LICENSE
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/archivebox/README.md b/archivebox/README.md
deleted file mode 120000
index 32d46ee8..00000000
--- a/archivebox/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/archivebox/package.json b/archivebox/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 362cfffe..00000000
--- a/archivebox/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "archivebox",
-  "version": "0.7.2",
-  "description": "ArchiveBox: The self-hosted internet archive",
-  "author": "Nick Sweeting <archivebox-npm@sweeting.me>",
-  "repository": "github:ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@postlight/parser": "^2.2.3",
-    "readability-extractor": "github:ArchiveBox/readability-extractor",
-    "single-file-cli": "^1.1.46"
-  }
-}