diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d20b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
diff --git a/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py b/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
index 05a0108..8a69fea 100644
--- a/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
+++ b/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
+from scrapy.spider import Spider
 from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 
 from dirbot.items import Website
 
 
-class DmozSpider(BaseSpider):
+class DmozSpider(Spider):
     name = "dmoz"
     allowed_domains = ["dmoz.org"]
     start_urls = [