diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d20b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f66b73d..9955c53 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -2,56 +2,13 @@
 dirbot
 ======
 
-This is a Scrapy project to scrape websites from public web directories.
+Deprecation notice (March 2017)
+===============================
 
-This project is only meant for educational purposes.
+**This project is now deprecated.**
 
-Items
-=====
+http://dmoz.org is no more and Scrapy's tutorial has been re-written
+against http://quotes.toscrape.com/.
 
-The items scraped by this project are websites, and the item is defined in the
-class::
-
-    dirbot.items.Website
-
-See the source code for more details.
-
-Spiders
-=======
-
-This project contains one spider called ``dmoz`` that you can see by running::
-
-    scrapy list
-
-Spider: dmoz
-------------
-
-The ``dmoz`` spider scrapes the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org), and it's
-based on the dmoz spider described in the `Scrapy tutorial`_
-
-This spider doesn't crawl the entire dmoz.org site but only a few pages by
-default (defined in the ``start_pages`` attribute). These pages are:
-
-* http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/
-* http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Resources/
-
-So, if you run the spider regularly (with ``scrapy crawl dmoz``) it will scrape
-only those two pages. However, you can scrape any dmoz.org page by passing the
-url instead of the spider name. Scrapy internally resolves the spider to use by
-looking at the allowed domains of each spider.
-
-For example, to scrape a different URL use::
-
-    scrapy crawl http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Erlang/
-
-You can scrape any URL from dmoz.org using this spider
-
-.. _Scrapy tutorial: http://doc.scrapy.org/intro/tutorial.html 
-
-Pipelines
-=========
-
-This project uses a pipeline to filter out websites containing certain
-forbidden words in their description. This pipeline is defined in the class::
-
-    dirbot.pipelines.FilterWordsPipeline
+Please refer to https://github.com/scrapy/quotesbot for a more relevant
+and up-to-date educational project on how to get started with Scrapy.
diff --git a/dirbot/items.py b/dirbot/items.py
index a3f0408..b1e341f 100644
--- a/dirbot/items.py
+++ b/dirbot/items.py
@@ -6,6 +6,3 @@ class Website(Item):
     name = Field()
     description = Field()
     url = Field()
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        return "Website: name=%s url=%s" % (self.get('name'), self.get('url'))
diff --git a/dirbot/pipelines.py b/dirbot/pipelines.py
index d301b59..be30566 100644
--- a/dirbot/pipelines.py
+++ b/dirbot/pipelines.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class FilterWordsPipeline(object):
 
     def process_item(self, item, spider):
         for word in self.words_to_filter:
-            if word in unicode(item['description']).lower():
+            if word in item['description'].lower():
                 raise DropItem("Contains forbidden word: %s" % word)
         else:
             return item
diff --git a/dirbot/settings.py b/dirbot/settings.py
index 2c8dd3d..4742811 100644
--- a/dirbot/settings.py
+++ b/dirbot/settings.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'dirbot.spiders'
 DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'dirbot.items.Website'
 
-ITEM_PIPELINES = ['dirbot.pipelines.FilterWordsPipeline']
+ITEM_PIPELINES = {'dirbot.pipelines.FilterWordsPipeline': 1}
diff --git a/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py b/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
index e0807ec..6ecb2ff 100644
--- a/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
+++ b/dirbot/spiders/dmoz.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
-from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.spiders import Spider
+from scrapy.selector import Selector
 
 from dirbot.items import Website
 
 
-class DmozSpider(BaseSpider):
+class DmozSpider(Spider):
     name = "dmoz"
     allowed_domains = ["dmoz.org"]
     start_urls = [
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@ def parse(self, response):
         @url http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Resources/
         @scrapes name
         """
-        hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
-        sites = hxs.select('//ul[@class="directory-url"]/li')
+        sites = response.css('#site-list-content > div.site-item > div.title-and-desc')
         items = []
 
         for site in sites:
             item = Website()
-            item['name'] = site.select('a/text()').extract()
-            item['url'] = site.select('a/@href').extract()
-            item['description'] = site.select('text()').extract()
+            item['name'] = site.css(
+                'a > div.site-title::text').extract_first().strip()
+            item['url'] = site.xpath(
+                'a/@href').extract_first().strip()
+            item['description'] = site.css(
+                'div.site-descr::text').extract_first().strip()
             items.append(item)
 
         return items