diff --git a/scrapy/utils/conf.py b/scrapy/utils/conf.py
index caa80a5a158..382831cedd3 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/conf.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/conf.py
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 import six
 from six.moves.configparser import SafeConfigParser
 
+try:
+    from xdg.BaseDirectory import xdg_config_home
+except ImportError:
+    xdg_config_home = os.path.expanduser('~/.config')
+
 
 def build_component_list(base, custom):
     """Compose a component list based on a custom and base dict of components
@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ def get_config(use_closest=True):
 
 def get_sources(use_closest=True):
     sources = ['/etc/scrapy.cfg', r'c:\scrapy\scrapy.cfg',
+               xdg_config_home + '/scrapy.cfg',
                os.path.expanduser('~/.scrapy.cfg')]
     if use_closest:
         sources.append(closest_scrapy_cfg())