About Us
Scrapinghub is a new startup with the goal of providing the best web scraping technology.
Pablo Hoffman - Founder. Pablo has been working on a wide range of web scraping projects since 2007. He's the lead developer of Scrapy, an open source screen scraping framework for Python. He also founded Insophia, a company that provides screen scraping and system administration help to bootstrap your startup.
Shane Evans - Founder. Shane has been involved in startups since joining lastminute.com in 1999, where he led development of the most critical projects there for many years. Since that time he has been part of the founding team for a few companies, always seeking out interesting technical challenges. He was introduced to web crawling when leading development of the search systems at mydeco.com. Some of the web crawling code he wrote at that time was open sourced as the Scrapy project.
