diff --git a/docs/topics/shell.rst b/docs/topics/shell.rst
index 37268c3ca..5c1cfbd47 100644
--- a/docs/topics/shell.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/shell.rst
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Here's an example of how you would call it from your spider::
             # We want to inspect one specific response.
             if ".org" in response.url:
                 from scrapy.shell import inspect_response
-                inspect_response(response)
+                inspect_response(response, self)
 
             # Rest of parsing code.