diff --git a/sitemap/generator/spiders/sitemap_file.py b/sitemap/generator/spiders/sitemap_file.py
index 6da95640..fa21266f 100644
--- a/sitemap/generator/spiders/sitemap_file.py
+++ b/sitemap/generator/spiders/sitemap_file.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ except ImportError:
     import urllib.parse as urlparse
 
 from scrapy import item
-from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
+from scrapy import linkextractors
 from scrapy import spiders
 
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class SitemapSpider(spiders.CrawlSpider):
 
     rules = [
         spiders.Rule(
-            LinkExtractor(
+            linkextractors.LinkExtractor(
                 allow=[
                     r'.*\.html',
                     r'.*\.pdf',