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.

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