diff --git a/src/warc2zim/__about__.py b/src/warc2zim/__about__.py
index 494af57f..11fb1b2f 100644
--- a/src/warc2zim/__about__.py
+++ b/src/warc2zim/__about__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.0.0-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.0.0-dev1"
diff --git a/src/warc2zim/converter.py b/src/warc2zim/converter.py
index 96f33100..c0b399bd 100644
--- a/src/warc2zim/converter.py
+++ b/src/warc2zim/converter.py
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ def __init__(self, args):
 
         self.written_records = self.total_records = 0
 
+        self.scraper_suffix = args.scraper_suffix
+
     def init_env(self):
         # autoescape=False to allow injecting html entities from translated text
         env = Environment(
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@ def run(self):
             Illustration_48x48_at_1=self.illustration,
             Tags=";".join(self.tags),
             Source=self.source,
-            Scraper=f"warc2zim {get_version()}",
+            Scraper=f"warc2zim {get_version()}{self.scraper_suffix}",
         ).start()
 
         for filename in importlib.resources.files("warc2zim.statics").iterdir():
diff --git a/src/warc2zim/main.py b/src/warc2zim/main.py
index b459f0f0..d2582c1c 100644
--- a/src/warc2zim/main.py
+++ b/src/warc2zim/main.py
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ def main(raw_args=None):
         default="",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--scraper-suffix",
+        help="Additional string to append as a suffix to ZIM Scraper metadata, in "
+        "addition to regular warc2zim value",
+    )
+
     args = parser.parse_args(args=raw_args)
     converter = Converter(args)
     return converter.run()
diff --git a/tests/test_warc_to_zim.py b/tests/test_warc_to_zim.py
index 4d659ee3..14dd31f6 100644
--- a/tests/test_warc_to_zim.py
+++ b/tests/test_warc_to_zim.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import requests
 from zimscraperlib.zim import Archive
 
+from warc2zim.__about__ import __version__
 from warc2zim.converter import iter_warc_records
 from warc2zim.main import main
 from warc2zim.url_rewriting import normalize
@@ -17,11 +18,13 @@
 
 TEST_DATA_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), "data")
 
+SCRAPER_SUFFIX = " + zimit x.y.z-devw"
 
 # ============================================================================
 CMDLINES = [
     ["example-response.warc"],
     ["example-response.warc", "--progress-file", "progress.json"],
+    ["example-response.warc", "--scraper-suffix", SCRAPER_SUFFIX],
     ["example-resource.warc.gz", "--favicon", "https://example.com/some/favicon.ico"],
     ["example-resource.warc.gz", "--favicon", "https://www.google.com/favicon.ico"],
     ["example-revisit.warc.gz"],
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ def get_article_raw(self, zimfile, path):
         zim_fh = Archive(zimfile)
         return zim_fh.get_item(path)
 
-    def verify_warc_and_zim(self, warcfile, zimfile):
+    def verify_warc_and_zim(self, warcfile, zimfile, verify_scraper_suffix):
         assert os.path.isfile(warcfile)
         assert os.path.isfile(zimfile)
 
@@ -107,6 +110,13 @@ def verify_warc_and_zim(self, warcfile, zimfile):
         warc_urls = set()
 
         zim_fh = Archive(zimfile)
+
+        if verify_scraper_suffix:
+            assert (
+                f"warc2zim {__version__}{SCRAPER_SUFFIX}"
+                == zim_fh.get_text_metadata("Scraper")
+            )
+
         for record in iter_warc_records([warcfile]):
             url = get_record_url(record)
             if not url:
@@ -283,7 +293,9 @@ def test_warc_to_zim(self, cmdline, tmp_path):
                     and progress["written"] <= progress["total"]
                 )
 
-        self.verify_warc_and_zim(warcfile, tmp_path / zimfile)
+        self.verify_warc_and_zim(
+            warcfile, tmp_path / zimfile, "--scraper-suffix" in cmdline
+        )
 
     def test_same_domain_only(self, tmp_path):
         zim_output = "same-domain.zim"