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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nShane 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneaevans/\n\n## What Shane builds\n\n- [Zyte API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md), graded B, 69.7/100, in Web scraping \u0026 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 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Pablo Hoffman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pablo-hoffman/), Co-founder\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shane Evans?\n\nShane 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.\n\n### What does Zyte Group Limited make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Shane's tools graded?\n\nZyte API is graded B, 69.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.zyte.com/meet-zyte/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneaevans/\n- https://es.linkedin.com/in/pablohoffman\n- https://www.zyte.com/\n- https://www.zyte.com/contact-us/\n- https://support.zyte.com/support/home\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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