From f4d1905cca7b784f88bff00f6c43ed7e95ebeaa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:51:39 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Modernize some code in examples.

---
 docs/topics/developer-tools.rst  | 3 +--
 docs/topics/request-response.rst | 2 +-
 docs/topics/settings.rst         | 4 ++--
 docs/topics/signals.rst          | 4 ++--
 docs/topics/spiders.rst          | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst b/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst
index 05dffcdda..a5ffe00f1 100644
--- a/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst
@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ also request each page to get every quote on the site:
 .. code-block:: python
 
     import scrapy
-    import json
 
 
     class QuoteSpider(scrapy.Spider):
@@ -256,7 +255,7 @@ also request each page to get every quote on the site:
         start_urls = ["https://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=1"]
 
         def parse(self, response):
-            data = json.loads(response.text)
+            data = response.json()
             for quote in data["quotes"]:
                 yield {"quote": quote["text"]}
             if data["has_next"]:
diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index a5f799444..8ce827676 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ errors if needed:
                 )
 
         def parse_httpbin(self, response):
-            self.logger.info("Got successful response from {}".format(response.url))
+            self.logger.info(f"Got successful response from {response.url}")
             # do something useful here...
 
         def errback_httpbin(self, failure):
diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index a592f8bc5..75e213fc0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ In order to use the reactor installed by Scrapy:
 
         def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
             self.timeout = int(kwargs.pop("timeout", "60"))
-            super(QuotesSpider, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+            super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
         async def start(self):
             reactor.callLater(self.timeout, self.stop)
@@ -2238,7 +2238,7 @@ which raises an exception, becomes:
 
         def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
             self.timeout = int(kwargs.pop("timeout", "60"))
-            super(QuotesSpider, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+            super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
         async def start(self):
             from twisted.internet import reactor
diff --git a/docs/topics/signals.rst b/docs/topics/signals.rst
index 531232149..03996bee6 100644
--- a/docs/topics/signals.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/signals.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Here is a simple example showing how you can catch signals and perform some acti
 
         @classmethod
         def from_crawler(cls, crawler, *args, **kwargs):
-            spider = super(DmozSpider, cls).from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
+            spider = super().from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
             crawler.signals.connect(spider.spider_closed, signal=signals.spider_closed)
             return spider
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Let's take an example using :ref:`coroutines <topics-coroutines>`:
 
         @classmethod
         def from_crawler(cls, crawler, *args, **kwargs):
-            spider = super(SignalSpider, cls).from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
+            spider = super().from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
             crawler.signals.connect(spider.item_scraped, signal=signals.item_scraped)
             return spider
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index 887da0a15..af5c9a565 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Spiders can access arguments in their `__init__` methods:
         name = "myspider"
 
         def __init__(self, category=None, *args, **kwargs):
-            super(MySpider, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+            super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
             self.start_urls = [f"http://www.example.com/categories/{category}"]
             # ...