diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
index ecfbc98530ed..cc22804d48a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, glibcLocales, mock, pytest, botocore,
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, fetchpatch, glibcLocales, mock, pytest, botocore,
   testfixtures, pillow, six, twisted, w3lib, lxml, queuelib, pyopenssl,
   service-identity, parsel, pydispatcher, cssselect, lib }:
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "1.6.0";
+  version = "1.7.1";
   pname = "Scrapy";
 
   checkInputs = [ glibcLocales mock pytest botocore testfixtures pillow ];
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # root and readonly. As a consequence scrapy can't edit the
     # project templates.
     ./permissions-fix.patch
+
+    # Fix configparser import for python2. See: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/3887
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/21345dc9ec60dcc1cd2e5c0eace5788aa502ce23.patch";
+      sha256 = "09834rcjyggvyj6zignvfga2xbqkknygly5p4a96k2mvz0xn3v6z";
+    })
   ];
 
   LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8";
@@ -25,12 +31,13 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # Ignore test_retry_dns_error because tries to resolve an invalid dns and weirdly fails with "Reactor was unclean"
   # Ignore xml encoding test on darwin because lxml can't find encodings https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/707396
   checkPhase = ''
-    pytest -p no:doctest --ignore=tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py --ignore=tests/test_proxy_connect.py --deselect tests/test_crawl.py::CrawlTestCase::test_retry_dns_error ${lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--deselect tests/test_utils_iterators.py::LxmlXmliterTestCase::test_xmliter_encoding"}
+    substituteInPlace pytest.ini --replace "addopts = --doctest-modules" "addopts ="
+    pytest --ignore=tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py --ignore=tests/test_proxy_connect.py --deselect tests/test_crawl.py::CrawlTestCase::test_retry_dns_error ${lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--deselect tests/test_utils_iterators.py::LxmlXmliterTestCase::test_xmliter_encoding"}
   '';
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "558dfd10ac53cb324ecd7eefd3eac412161c7507c082b01b0bcd2c6e2e9f0766";
+    sha256 = "da8987d199092c3bb33d4d1d021507cd933aa67f5177e2d36f31343e8a6bd7f1";
   };
 
   postInstall = ''