diff --git a/manual/news.rst b/manual/news.rst
index 1f9b07603b..a8028ef47c 100644
--- a/manual/news.rst
+++ b/manual/news.rst
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ The next interesting feature is::
     def get_browser(self):
         ...
 
-``needs_subscription = True`` tells calibre that this recipe needs a username and password in order to access the content. This causes, calibre to ask for a username and password whenever you try to use this recipe. The code in :meth:`calibre.web.feeds.news.BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser` actually does the login into the NYT website. Once logged in, calibre will use the same, logged in, browser instance to fetch all content. See `mechanize <http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/>`_ to understand the code in ``get_browser``.
+``needs_subscription = True`` tells calibre that this recipe needs a username and password in order to access the content. This causes, calibre to ask for a username and password whenever you try to use this recipe. The code in :meth:`calibre.web.feeds.news.BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser` actually does the login into the NYT website. Once logged in, calibre will use the same, logged in, browser instance to fetch all content. See `mechanize <https://github.com/jjlee/mechanize>`_ to understand the code in ``get_browser``.
 
 The next new feature is the
 :meth:`calibre.web.feeds.news.BasicNewsRecipe.parse_index` method. Its job is
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index a29383df82..37fe4b594c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
     def get_browser(self, *args, **kwargs):
         '''
         Return a browser instance used to fetch documents from the web. By default
-        it returns a `mechanize <https://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/>`_
+        it returns a `mechanize <https://github.com/jjlee/mechanize>`_
         browser instance that supports cookies, ignores robots.txt, handles
         refreshes and has a mozilla firefox user agent.