# Shane Evans

> Shane Evans is co-founder and CEO. Zyte API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneaevans/

## What Shane builds

- [Zyte API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md), graded B, 69.7/100, in 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 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Pablo Hoffman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pablo-hoffman/), Co-founder

## Questions

### 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.

## Sources

- https://www.zyte.com/meet-zyte/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneaevans/
- https://es.linkedin.com/in/pablohoffman
- https://www.zyte.com/
- https://www.zyte.com/contact-us/
- https://support.zyte.com/support/home

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