diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index 991a5131a..f8ddf2135 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ spider:
 
 For example::
 
-    from scrapy import abstractspider, Spider
+    from scrapy.spiders import abstractspider, Spider
 
     @abstractspider
     class MyBaseSpider(Spider):