diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..56780533b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.spiders` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders import *
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/crawl.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/crawl.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d20a8bb16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/crawl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.spiders.crawl` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders.crawl` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders.crawl import *
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5eea9a062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.spiders.feed` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders.feed` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders.feed import *
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/init.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/init.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d1ec0aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/init.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.spiders.init` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders.init` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders.init import *
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/sitemap.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/sitemap.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2ad231fd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/sitemap.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.spiders.sitemap` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders.sitemap` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders.sitemap import *