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Responsible Web Scraping: Challenges and Approaches with Ondra Urban, COO of Apify

The topic for today’s episode of Ethical Data, Explained is ethical data and web scraping. Henry Ng is joined by Ondra Urban to discuss Ondra's time at Apify, making the web more programmable and accessible, maintaining ethical standards as a web scraping company, and the implications of the HiQ Vs LinkedIn case.

Ondra is the COO at Apify but prefers to think of himself as the chief debugging officer. He previously worked as a lawyer and then as an engineer before working at Apify as a web scraper.

Ondra enjoys finding weak spots and bottlenecks in systems and unlocking their full potential. His mission is to make Apify a well-oiled machine that can achieve the goal of making the web more programmable.

Learn more from Ondra Urban on maintaining ethical data standards as a web scraping company.

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