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@@ -42,9 +42,15 @@ Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to
 crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
 a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
 
+Scrapy is maintained by `Scrapinghub`_ and `many other contributors`_.
+
+.. _many other contributors: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/graphs/contributors
+.. _Scrapinghub: https://www.scrapinghub.com/
+
 Check the Scrapy homepage at https://scrapy.org for more information,
 including a list of features.
 
+
 Requirements
 ============