diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index f5dca824f..1d5babcec 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS_BASE
 Default::
 
     {
+        'data': 'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.datauri.DataURIDownloadHandler',
         'file': 'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.file.FileDownloadHandler',
         'http': 'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler',
         'https': 'scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.http.HTTPDownloadHandler',