diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemloaders/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemloaders/default.nix
index 10472c1c0d5e..73957e6b0aea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemloaders/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/itemloaders/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , pythonOlder
+, setuptools
 , w3lib
 , parsel
 , jmespath
@@ -12,17 +13,21 @@
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "itemloaders";
   version = "1.2.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
+  pyproject = true;
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "scrapy";
-    repo = pname;
+    repo = "itemloaders";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
     hash = "sha256-DatHJnAIomVoN/GrDzM2fNnFHcXqo6zs3ucKCOCf9DU=";
   };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     w3lib
     parsel
@@ -34,18 +39,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
-  disabledTests = [
-    # Test are failing (AssertionError: Lists differ: ...)
-    "test_nested_css"
-    "test_nested_xpath"
-  ];
-
   pythonImportsCheck = [
     "itemloaders"
   ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Base library for scrapy's ItemLoader";
+    description = "Library to populate items using XPath and CSS with a convenient API";
     homepage = "https://github.com/scrapy/itemloaders";
     changelog = "https://github.com/scrapy/itemloaders/raw/v${version}/docs/release-notes.rst";
     license = licenses.bsd3;