diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.rst b/docs/intro/overview.rst
index b9ecead6c..c2151a0c2 100644
--- a/docs/intro/overview.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/overview.rst
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ For more information about XPath see the `XPath reference`_.
 
 Finally, here's the spider code::
 
+    from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
+    from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
+    from scrapy.selectors import Selector
+
     class MininovaSpider(CrawlSpider):
 
         name = 'mininova'
diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index 5f8b1c012..cc11c1cf5 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ HttpAuthMiddleware
 
     Example::
 
+        from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider
+
         class SomeIntranetSiteSpider(CrawlSpider):
 
             http_user = 'someuser'