Using Scrapy to Crawl Websites
Scrapy Homepage: http://scrapy.org/, It has a blog site with the most recent updates: http://blog.scrapy.org/
Scrapy split to 2 modules: w3lib and scrapely. Both have pypi page.
After these changes, Scrapy codebase has been reduced by 4574 lines, including blank and comments (according to cloc).
Scrapy team also offer a sample project to explain how to use scrapy: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot