diff --git a/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst b/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst
index a0f4b4411..a99f1e222 100644
--- a/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst
@@ -115,15 +115,14 @@ Handling different response formats
 Once you have a response with the desired data, how you extract the desired
 data from it depends on the type of response:
 
--   If the response is HTML or XML, use :ref:`selectors
+-   If the response is HTML, XML or JSON, use :ref:`selectors
     <topics-selectors>` as usual.
 
--   If the response is JSON, use :func:`json.loads` to load the desired data from
-    :attr:`response.text <scrapy.http.TextResponse.text>`:
+-   If the response is JSON, use :func:`response.json()` to load the desired data:
 
     .. code-block:: python
 
-        data = json.loads(response.text)
+        data = response.json()
 
     If the desired data is inside HTML or XML code embedded within JSON data,
     you can load that HTML or XML code into a
diff --git a/docs/topics/selectors.rst b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
index 4a64d530b..25b8b9c26 100644
--- a/docs/topics/selectors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
@@ -1062,6 +1062,12 @@ Selector objects
 
           For convenience, this method can be called as ``response.css()``
 
+  .. automethod:: jmespath
+
+      .. note::
+
+          For convenience, this method can be called as ``response.jmespath()``
+
   .. automethod:: get
 
      See also: :ref:`old-extraction-api`
@@ -1094,6 +1100,8 @@ SelectorList objects
 
    .. automethod:: css
 
+   .. automethod:: jmespath
+
    .. automethod:: getall
 
       See also: :ref:`old-extraction-api`
diff --git a/scrapy/selector/unified.py b/scrapy/selector/unified.py
index 5ad4724c0..4ad90d36a 100644
--- a/scrapy/selector/unified.py
+++ b/scrapy/selector/unified.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class Selector(_ParselSelector, object_ref):
 
     * ``"html"`` for :class:`~scrapy.http.HtmlResponse` type
     * ``"xml"`` for :class:`~scrapy.http.XmlResponse` type
+    * ``"json"`` for :class:`~scrapy.http.TextResponse` type
     * ``"html"`` for anything else
 
     Otherwise, if ``type`` is set, the selector type will be forced and no