Founder of a listed tool

Shane Evans

Co-founder and CEO, named behind the Zyte API listing on Anchor Terminal.

Shane Evans

Co-founder and CEO

Shane Evans co-founded Zyte, formerly Scrapinghub, with Pablo Hoffman and is its chief executive. The pair built their own data extraction software before founding the company, which maintains Scrapy, the open source Python crawling framework. He has written on the Scrapinghub to Zyte rebrand, the Portia visual scraping tool and storage for scraped data.

What Shane builds

  • Zyte API B · Web scraping & crawling

    Zyte API is a hosted web scraping API from Zyte Group Limited of Cork, Ireland. One endpoint returns a page's HTTP body, browser-rendered HTML, a screenshot or extracted structured data, with ban avoidance handled by the service.

    Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Shane Evans?

Shane Evans co-founded Zyte, formerly Scrapinghub, with Pablo Hoffman and is its chief executive. The pair built their own data extraction software before founding the company, which maintains Scrapy, the open source Python crawling framework. He has written on the Scrapinghub to Zyte rebrand, the Portia visual scraping tool and storage for scraped data.

What does Zyte Group Limited make?

Anchor Terminal lists Zyte API from Zyte Group Limited. Zyte API is a hosted web scraping API from Zyte Group Limited of Cork, Ireland. One endpoint returns a page's HTTP body, browser-rendered HTML, a screenshot or extracted structured data, with ban avoidance handled by the service.

How are Shane's tools graded?

Zyte API is graded B, 69.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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