Octoparse

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Its ability to handle highly complex tasks compared to other tools in the market. The fast response from their support, ease of use, and most importantly, its try-except setup for everything ensures one error does not terminate the whole scraping.

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I wish there were an option to clear data in Scraper before starting a new extraction on scheduled extraction. It would be very useful in parent-child configuration.

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The ability to parse virtually any website for data and then quickly export and utilize it was great. The scrapes helped identify leads for targeted outreach, usually the research process takes the longest, but Octoparse made it fast and easy. I actually got more than I was looking for

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Downloading the octoparse client onto my own device for the trial period before upgrading made me hesitant, only because I had never heard of octoparse, but I never experienced any issues.

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Hardly anything was good about the product and especially the company itself. It's seems like fraud!!!

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Hard to use and slow in execution and above all illegal in the EU !!!

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Very user friendly and easy to extract to data from website

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Captcha solving could be improved to handle the latest captcha's

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I have been using Octoparse for almost 5 years now and I can confidently say that this is the best program for extracting data from the web without writing a single line of code. Plus, it has an intuitive platform and excellent technical support.

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Despite having a very intuitive interface, it requires several hours of trial and error before you can fully master it. There are also opportunities for improvement in the translation of the interface into Spanish.

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Ease to test, support is second to none. and I do say that with a background running data services and support with 200 engineers and 150 support staff.

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none that I have run into. the product continues to evolve which is perfect for our needs on a changing basis daily.

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-Quick turnaround when I need assistance for a specific task.
-Uninterrupted service.

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1- I would prefer to use input file (csv) as a list in a loop - currently you can only import url list
2- I would prefer use the input file as a local path; so Octoparse would import it automaticall every time I run the task. Currently, I have to import the file manually everytime. It is not feasible.

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Octoparse has been an absolute game changer for us as a company. Being able to quickly and easily build tools to web scrape is revolutionary for us as a business.

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Occasionally it can take a bit of back & forth with support to get it working on some websites, however I think this is more of an issue with the website layout than Octoparse itself most of the time.

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Octoparse's best feature is its ease of use for web scraping, with a visual interface that makes complex data extraction straightforward even for non-coders.

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The biggest drawback of Octoparse is its occasional performance issues with large-scale scraping, which can lead to slower execution and data limits

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The easy way of setting up things and run the task, if done in a correct way you can save a lot of time.

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Sometimes when there is a new update a review of created jobs is required to ensure a smooth run.

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The Support team is very kind and professional, no question 5-stars.
I like the automations and also the cloud run feature, so I my laptop doesn't need to run 24/7.

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I don't think it's very easy to understand, how scrapers work, unless you have some sense for it, not just Octoparse, but in general.

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Easy to use, powerful, great customer support!

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Sometimes there are REST API connection issues.

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The customer service team is incredible. Super attentive and very helpful.

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It does require a little bit of a learning curve, but that's because the tech is quite sophisticated. And the customer service team was always so responsive that it made up for the time spent trying to figure out the software.

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easy to use.

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Cost

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It is an outstanding product with very great capabilities especially for research work, and it is prizing is within reach.

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It took some time before i was confident of my capabilities to use the App, but I can surely say that it is worth the time sacrificed to know how it works

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With the free version, you have many choices to run specific data extraction programs. In addition to it, you can choose among pre-built receipts so that you can start extracting data in no time.

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UI is a bit complicated and I found some issues installing the Mac version of the app.

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Octoparse is really a great data extraction tool to scrape product information online. As a e-commerce owner, I need to keep an eye on price. With the help of Octoparse cloud service, I just need to make a simple crawler(no coding needed actually) to extract the product price and then schedule the crawler to run every day automatically to get the updated data. It really saves me a lot of time and the extracted data helps me make a wise strategy. That's why I choose the premium plan despite of the powerful function of the free plan.
Furthermore, Octoparse now is offering great discounts for new users and give continuous support to the old users. It is really worth a try.

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Some websites need to modify the XPath if you want to exactly get the data you want. This would be a little difficult for me at first. But with the help of abundant tutorials and XPath tool, I finally got it!

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They have some template on crawling specific website

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I try to crawl some literature databased from google scholar using their template, but it doesn't work well since google detected it as a robot. So totally crawl all the data was imposible, the system will stopped before finished the entired data crawling.

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Octoparse has a great feature set and attractive pricing. Among scraping software, it's a strong contender for one of the most user-friendly and feature-rich.

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Too bad it's only an option if you're on Windows. Agencies and other environments that tend to be Mac shops won't be able to consider it.

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Cost .

I'm a Sales manager and have to deal with massive profiles of customer. Every info was unstructured data and was hard to read through, which caused much headache. That was a luck a friend introduced Octoparse to me, a great web scraping tool, it boosted much of my work efficiency, and my team succeeding in exceeding sales target. Great software! Great Help!

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Customer support

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There are a lot ways to scrape data from several different sites. Ocotparse also offers lots of tutorials if you are unsure of how to scrape data from certain sites.

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There are some features that might be hard to understand how to use if you do not have a basic understanding of coding. Ocotparse does provide many how to guides to help those that do not have a good background in coding.

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website showing you that is a great software...

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working themes and a notification before cut plan cost... before trial end....

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It's easy to use, and its point-and-click interface is very easy to understand! Also, it is very functional. Great improvement on my efficiency!!

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Price is not so pleasant, but I think it is quite worthy, since it improves much of my efficiency!!!

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Octoparse makes web scraping incredibly easy, even for non-technical users. I was impressed by how intuitive the interface is—just point, click, and extract data. The pre-built templates for common websites saved me hours of work. It's a game-changer for data collection without coding.

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Some advanced features can be a bit tricky to master at first, especially when dealing with dynamic content or custom workflows. However, the learning curve flattens quickly thanks to the helpful tutorials and support team.

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L'analyse automatique de la structure de la page qui permet d'obtenir plusieurs propositions d'extractions en un seul clic. Les nombreuses possibilités d'export automatique et notamment vers mySQL. Les mises à jour régulières avec, à chaque fois, de nouvelles fonctionnalités.

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Pas grand chose. Octoparse est en constante évolution et répond à mes besoins. Quelques fonctionnalités me manquent mais je suis certain qu'elles seront développées dans un futur proche, comme par exemple la possibilité de récupérer une source CSV contenant des urls ou des ids et d'autres champs et de les récupérer dans le fichier de sortie.

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I appreciate how easy the application is to get basic scraping, but the standout is the support staff. They will help you or even just fix it themselves. I recently had a job need changes. I was out of the country and did not have a reliable internet connection. A quick email to support and less than a day later, I was back getting data.

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Octoparse includes many default templates, but they are "black boxes". I would really like to be able to open them and see how they are working. It would to better understand how to make my own scripts work better.

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- Easy to navigate user interface
- Lot's of help and articles on hand
- Web scraping in less than 5 mins
- Lot's of great features to automate jobs
- Price was reasonable

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- Maybe the time it takes to tweak your scraping jobs, however this is the case for any software tool.

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I like how responsive and intuitive (to me at least) the tool is overall. Can't do much about the websites themselves but the tool itself when everything is aligned is excellent and does the job consistently and accurately. All this without needing much more than installing one app and not having to do many things and libraries and code. The support is always available and helpful too, which is a major plus.

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There are some features that are still missing, like maybe a "production-chain" type where a task finishing triggers another task using that data, but I guess they are planning on adding many more features in the future.

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Continues service with least interruption rate and quick responses from the support team.

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Some tasks are not possible to modify. Also, Cloudflare bypass was limited to popular websites. Other websites might need extra credits to bypass.

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Once your project is properly setup, it is simple to run when needed. The Octoparse team is great at helping you set things up properly and they will answer any questions needed.

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There are really not many cons associated with Octoparse. Usually if there is any issue, it is centered around the data source and not the Octoparse system.

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No code, fast development.super convenient.

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Unfortunately, it would be nice if we could embed our own scripts and we could develop our own templates.

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within few second i can start scraping and speed very high.

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the price is very high as i am a bangladeshi.

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Logging into sites where it is required before scraping. Editing tasks before scraping and exporting it to Excel Spreadsheets.

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I am unable to scrape documents from a downloaded file (Word/PDF doc).

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Easy to use. Great customer service team. Very helpful. Scrapers can be adjusted / corrected quickly when they do break.

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They are continually iterating and improving. Additional opportunities include ability to manipulate scraped data by improving the IF / THEN / ELSE functionality.

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UI is easy to use without coding and work smoothly after pipeline is ready

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sometimes not work as expectation, need take time to debug

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We love the pre-set template options and the ability to scrape the web. Team was very great on helping us great custom templates!

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We like the customer support, but since we are based in the USA… responses are not at an ideal time for our team. We know we will have to wait at least 12 hours to hear back.

We'd also love more detailed tutorials on how to customize our own templates. We are new to the "web scraping" world and sometimes need a quick data extraction which are usually not worth the time or money for a legit template.

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This is truly a low code required tool and if things get complicated, the support is there to guide you through what's needed to be successful.

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Hmmm. While I have not used all of the features, I imagine that someday Octoparse will recognize when the extracted data isn't quite right ... and just fix it automatically.

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What I like about the Octoparse is you don't need to code to build the scraping flow. Octoparse would do everything from start until the end. Thanks to its AI technology, you even don't need to select elements that you want to retrieve. The tool would do everything with just few clicks from you!

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Probably the AI sometimes not able to retrieve the desired element. But that's not problem because Octoparse has a huge resource to solve problems you have with the tools. Ranging from adding scrolling workflow, to choose elements that AI couldn't capture, their blog got it for you!

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the simple UI/UX, which at the same time permits you to handle complex tasks

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some difficulties in setting up cloud runs

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It's a more accessible way to scrape data and it's easy to use, even for beginners. The team is also responsive to my concerns.

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I'm still navigating through the tool and so far, I wish there are some features such as an "undo" button.

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Ease of use, good support, efficient product

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Paid use, but reasonable given the value

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It does the job and free up my time so much

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it is till need to pay to use it. hopefully it is available for free

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When configured properly, it works. So far, I've not come across a site I could not parse with OctoParse.

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It's can be extremely difficult to configure correctly. This may just be the nature of the beast, but for some sites it's definitely a task to get the right configuration set up.

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Customer support is very quick and reliable. Able to solve issues quickly with a thorough explanation.

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No PDF support. There are times where super basic and the super complicated sites are not easy to capture.

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It is easy to use and detect fields in an automatic way.

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It takes time to learn some features and options. It is easier than other software but still not completly automatic.

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The absolute ease of data scrapping. How each and every thing was easily scrapped with just identity the fields by clicking them. I loved how fast my work got done with a simple click.

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Nothing in particular. Everything was great. Maybe the prices could be a little more affordable but then it's a great tool so ofcourse it's a little expensive.

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Features that are essential but diverse
Good software is evident when it is easy to use for both the most basic and the most complex use cases.

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Nothing at all. Program is simply really good for the price.

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Intuitive and easy to navigate with fantastic support service.

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A little expensive but perhaps worth the investment.