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

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

3 improved by Insophia (insophia.com), with the sponsorship of By Design (the

4 company behind Mydeco).

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6 Here is the list of the primary authors & contributors, along with their user

7 name (in Scrapy trac/subversion). Emails are intentionally left out to avoid

8 spam.

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10 * Pablo Hoffman (pablo)

11 * Daniel Gra??a (daniel)

12 * Martin Olveyra (olveyra)

13 * Gabriel Garc??a (elpolilla)

14 * Michael Cetrulo (samus_)

15 * Artem Bogomyagkov (artem)

16 * Damian Canabal (calarval)

17 * Andres Moreira (andres)

18 * Ismael Carnales (ismael)

19 * Mat??as Aguirre (omab)

20 * German Hoffman (german)

21 * Anibal Pacheco (anibal)

22 * Bruno Deferrari

23 * Shane Evans

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25 And here is the list of people who have helped to put the Scrapy homepage live:

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27 * Ezequiel Rivero (ezequiel)

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