diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst index 7290bb844..3cd051cdf 100644 --- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst +++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Crawling rules ``link_extractor`` is a :ref:`Link Extractor ` object which defines how links will be extracted from each crawled page. Each produced link will be used to generate a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, which will contain the - link's text in its ``meta`` attribute. + link's text in its ``meta`` dictionary (under the ``link_text`` key). ``callback`` is a callable or a string (in which case a method from the spider object with that name will be used) to be called for each link extracted with