diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemadapter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemadapter/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92cc794dc2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemadapter/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy27 }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "itemadapter";
+  version = "0.1.0";
+
+  disabled = isPy27;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "52159b4f97d82aa2968000ee8371b2114af56a2f44e4cd9142580d46eea39020";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = false; # infinite recursion with Scrapy
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "itemadapter" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Common interface for data container classes";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/scrapy/itemadapter";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.marsam ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
index 2827f7151f4..177531e64f7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/default.nix
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
 , sybil
 , pytest-twisted
 , botocore
+, itemadapter
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  version = "2.1.0";
+  version = "2.2.1";
   pname = "Scrapy";
 
   disabled = isPy27;
@@ -55,14 +56,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     w3lib
     zope_interface
     protego
-  ];
-
-  patches = [
-    # Scrapy is usually installed via pip where copying all
-    # permissions makes sense. In Nix the files copied are owned by
-    # root and readonly. As a consequence scrapy can't edit the
-    # project templates.
-    ./permissions-fix.patch
+    itemadapter
   ];
 
   LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8";
@@ -78,7 +72,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "640aea0f9be9b055f5cfec5ab78ee88bb37a5be3809b138329bd2af51392ec7f";
+    sha256 = "6a09beb5190bfdee2d72cf261822eae5d92fe8a86ac9ee1f55fc44b4864ca583";
   };
 
   postInstall = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/permissions-fix.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/permissions-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 53038cf74e5..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scrapy/permissions-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
-index 5941066..89f8edb 100644
---- a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
-+++ b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import os
- import string
- from importlib import import_module
- from os.path import join, exists, abspath
--from shutil import ignore_patterns, move, copy2, copystat
-+from shutil import ignore_patterns, move, copyfile, copystat
- 
- import scrapy
- from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
-@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
-             if os.path.isdir(srcname):
-                 self._copytree(srcname, dstname)
-             else:
--                copy2(srcname, dstname)
--        copystat(src, dst)
-+                copyfile(srcname, dstname)
- 
-     def run(self, args, opts):
-         if len(args) not in (1, 2):
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 19cc9a75052..fc5f73d2108 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -888,6 +888,8 @@ in {
 
   itanium_demangler = callPackage ../development/python-modules/itanium_demangler { };
 
+  itemadapter = callPackage ../development/python-modules/itemadapter { };
+
   iterm2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/iterm2 { };
 
   janus = callPackage ../development/python-modules/janus { };