diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@
 :ref:`swh.loader-mercurial <swh-loader-mercurial>`
     loader for `Mercurial <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/>`_ repositories
 
+:ref:`swh.loader-metadata <swh-loader-metadata>`
+    pseudo-loader, which fetches :term:`extrinsic metadata` from forges instead
+    of software artifacts
+
 :ref:`swh.loader-svn <swh-loader-svn>`
     loader for `Subversion <https://subversion.apache.org/>`_ repositories
 
diff --git a/docs/swh-loader.rst b/docs/swh-loader.rst
--- a/docs/swh-loader.rst
+++ b/docs/swh-loader.rst
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@
    swh.loader.cvs <swh-loader-cvs/index>
    swh.loader.git <swh-loader-git/index>
    swh.loader.mercurial <swh-loader-mercurial/index>
+   swh.loader.metadata <swh-loader-metadata/index>
    swh.loader.svn <swh-loader-svn/index>
 
diff --git a/requirements-swh-dev.txt b/requirements-swh-dev.txt
--- a/requirements-swh-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh-dev.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 ../swh-loader-bzr
 ../swh-loader-git
 ../swh-loader-mercurial
+../swh-loader-metadata
 ../swh-loader-svn
 ../swh-loader-cvs
 ../swh-perfecthash
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 swh.loader.bzr
 swh.loader.git
 swh.loader.mercurial
+swh.loader.metadata
 swh.loader.svn
 swh.loader.cvs
 swh.model