Otherwise, it seems remiss of this developer to pick a name that is easily confused that of an existing open-source project with similar purpose.
Then the module author should prostrate himself at the feet of the all-mighty Python community, trembling in unreserved awe whilst acknowledging that the world quite deservedly revolves around them!
Module authors of other (obviously inferior) languages, take note: always check if there's any Python code with a similar name before you choose a title for your project, to avoid embarrassment!
Now imagine if I said on my website, "By the way, feel free to call it Perl, just be aware that there's also another project that calls itself that". Now I'm giving permission for people to be even more confusing!
The point is to avoid confusion among users who might not know about both tools.
"Scrappy (pronounced Scrap+Pee) == 'Scraper Happy' or 'Happy Scraper'; If you like you may call it Scrapy (pronounced Scrape+Pee) although Python has a web scraping framework by that name and this module is not a port of that one."
Looking at the previous versions on CPAN, it looks like it's said something similar since version 0.51 last August (a day after version 0.50, which appears to have been the first release).
(well, and short of using Selenium to script a login, then scrape the rendered page via a controlled firefox... which works, but is clunky)
