Scrapy was brought to life by Shane Evans while hacking a scraping framework

prototype for Mydeco (mydeco.com). It soon became maintained, extended and

improved by Insophia (insophia.com), with the initial sponsorship of Mydeco to

bootstrap the project. In mid-2011, Scrapinghub became the new official

maintainer.

Here is the list of the primary authors & contributors:

* Pablo Hoffman

* Daniel Graña

* Martin Olveyra

* Gabriel García

* Michael Cetrulo

* Artem Bogomyagkov

* Damian Canabal

* Andres Moreira

* Ismael Carnales

* Matías Aguirre

* German Hoffmann

* Anibal Pacheco

* Bruno Deferrari

* Shane Evans

* Ezequiel Rivero

* Patrick Mezard

* Rolando Espinoza

* Ping Yin

* Lucian Ursu

* Shuaib Khan

* Didier Deshommes

* Vikas Dhiman

* Jochen Maes

* Darian Moody

* Jordi Lonch

* Zuhao Wan

* Steven Almeroth

* Tom Mortimer-Jones

* Chris Tilden

* Alexandr N Zamaraev

* Emanuel Schorsch

* Michal Danilak

* Natan Lao

* Hasnain Lakhani

* Pedro Faustino

* Alex Cepoi

* Ilya Baryshev

* Libor Nenadál

* Jae-Myoung Yu

* Vladislav Poluhin

* Marc Abramowitz

* Valentin-Costel Hăloiu

* Jason Yeo

* Сергей Прохоров

* Simon Ratne

* Julien Duponchelle

* Jochen Maes

* Vikas Dhiman

* Juan Picca

* Nicolás Ramírez