diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
index 3a8bebd39..5e7090199 100644
--- a/conftest.py
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ collect_ignore = [
     "scrapy/log.py",
     "scrapy/dupefilter.py",
     "scrapy/command.py",
+    "scrapy/linkextractor.py",
 ] + _py_files("scrapy/contrib") + _py_files("scrapy/contrib_exp")
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractor.py b/scrapy/linkextractor.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b744aff8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.linkextractor` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.linkextractors` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.linkextractors import *