Community
Scrapy has a healthy and active community. Here is a list of the places where you can get help and stay notified of latests Scrapy news.
Getting involved and contributing
If you want to get involved and contribute patches or help documeting, start by reading Contributing to Scrapy.
All development happens on the Scrapy GitHub project (which has more than 1,000 watchers)
Mailing lists
scrapy-users: The main list for help and announcements
scrapy-developers: Where discussions about Scrapy development itself takes place
Stack Overflow
There is a healthy community providing Scrapy help on Stack Overflow, along with the core developers. The scrapy tag has around 300 questions. If Stack Overflow is your preference, ask your question there.
IRC
Join the #scrapy IRC channel at Freenode to chat with other Scrapy users & developers. You can join using the web browser or any IRC client.
Ask specific questions (don't ask to ask, don't ask if anyone is online, etc). If your question is clear & concise enough, it will probably get answered.
Follow Scrapy on Twitter to be notified of project progress, people using it, blog mentions, job offers, and other Scrapy news.
Code snippets
Snipplr is very popular for sharing useful Scrapy code snippets. Check out the scrapy tag on Snipplr.
Blog
The official Scrapy blog is available at http://blog.scrapy.org