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