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@@ -34,9 +34,16 @@ 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 has contributions from `many users`_ (thanks everyone!) and is sponsored
+by `Scrapinghub Ltd`_.
+
+.. _many users: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/graphs/contributors
+.. _Scrapinghub Ltd: https://www.scrapinghub.com/
+
 Check the Scrapy homepage at https://scrapy.org for more information,
 including a list of features.
 
+
 Requirements
 ============