diff --git a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
index 682f9d696..9f5881b62 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ Writing your own spider middleware
 Writing your own spider middleware is easy. Each middleware component is a
 single Python class that defines one or more of the following methods:
 
+.. module:: scrapy.contrib.spidermiddleware
+
 .. class:: SpiderMiddleware
 
     .. method:: process_spider_input(response, spider)