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
