diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
index eba097cd8c345..a78af82ba4db8 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
@@ -2430,16 +2430,14 @@ Read a URL with no options:
 
 .. ipython:: python
 
-   url = "https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html"
+   url = (
+       "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandas-dev/pandas/master/"
+       "pandas/tests/io/data/html/spam.html"
+   )
    dfs = pd.read_html(url)
    dfs
 
-.. note::
-
-   The data from the above URL changes every Monday so the resulting data above
-   and the data below may be slightly different.
-
-Read in the content of the file from the above URL and pass it to ``read_html``
+Read in the content of the "banklist.html" file and pass it to ``read_html``
 as a string:
 
 .. ipython:: python
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
index ba8b1a8a0679d..aed1aaedf2fa3 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_html.py
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ def test_to_html_compat(self):
         res = self.read_html(out, attrs={"class": "dataframe"}, index_col=0)[0]
         tm.assert_frame_equal(res, df)
 
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Html file was removed")
     @tm.network
     def test_banklist_url_positional_match(self):
         url = "https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html"
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ def test_banklist_url_positional_match(self):
 
         assert_framelist_equal(df1, df2)
 
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Html file was removed")
     @tm.network
     def test_banklist_url(self):
         url = "https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html"