diff --git a/docs/topics/components.rst b/docs/topics/components.rst
index 1ed55f000..478dd9647 100644
--- a/docs/topics/components.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/components.rst
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ If your requirement is a minimum Scrapy version, you may use
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    from pkg_resources import parse_version
+    from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
 
     import scrapy
 
diff --git a/scrapy/cmdline.py b/scrapy/cmdline.py
index 730e55350..efc9b36ea 100644
--- a/scrapy/cmdline.py
+++ b/scrapy/cmdline.py
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ import cProfile
 import inspect
 import os
 import sys
-
-import pkg_resources
+from importlib.metadata import entry_points
 
 import scrapy
 from scrapy.commands import BaseRunSpiderCommand, ScrapyCommand, ScrapyHelpFormatter
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ def _get_commands_from_module(module, inproject):
 
 def _get_commands_from_entry_points(inproject, group="scrapy.commands"):
     cmds = {}
-    for entry_point in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points(group):
+    for entry_point in entry_points().get(group, {}):
         obj = entry_point.load()
         if inspect.isclass(obj):
             cmds[entry_point.name] = obj()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ccfe20ae5..1f214571b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,23 +1,10 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from pkg_resources import parse_version
-from setuptools import __version__ as setuptools_version
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 version = (Path(__file__).parent / "scrapy/VERSION").read_text("ascii").strip()
 
 
-def has_environment_marker_platform_impl_support():
-    """Code extracted from 'pytest/setup.py'
-    https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/7538680c/setup.py#L31
-
-    The first known release to support environment marker with range operators
-    it is 18.5, see:
-    https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#id235
-    """
-    return parse_version(setuptools_version) >= parse_version("18.5")
-
-
 install_requires = [
     "Twisted>=18.9.0",
     "cryptography>=36.0.0",
@@ -36,19 +23,10 @@ install_requires = [
     "tldextract",
     "lxml>=4.4.1",
 ]
-extras_require = {}
-cpython_dependencies = [
-    "PyDispatcher>=2.0.5",
-]
-if has_environment_marker_platform_impl_support():
-    extras_require[
-        ':platform_python_implementation == "CPython"'
-    ] = cpython_dependencies
-    extras_require[':platform_python_implementation == "PyPy"'] = [
-        "PyPyDispatcher>=2.1.0",
-    ]
-else:
-    install_requires.extend(cpython_dependencies)
+extras_require = {
+    ':platform_python_implementation == "CPython"': ["PyDispatcher>=2.0.5"],
+    ':platform_python_implementation == "PyPy"': ["PyPyDispatcher>=2.1.0"],
+}
 
 
 setup(
diff --git a/tests/test_crawler.py b/tests/test_crawler.py
index ecb9c9b62..d54a2cb7e 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawler.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import sys
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from pkg_resources import parse_version
+from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
 from pytest import mark, raises
 from twisted import version as twisted_version
 from twisted.internet import defer