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Octoparse
No-code Web Scraping Tool
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Recommended
Andrea G.
Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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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.
UI is a bit complicated and I found some issues installing the Mac version of the app.
Eric S.
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Can be frustrating to use, but is otherwise a very feature-rich, robust tool.
Very robust builder. You can do a lot with their tool and have almost limitless options for building. Their support is slow but very helpful.
Their support seems to be on an Asian time zone, so responses can be 12-24 hours. That is frustrating, but they are otherwise very helpful. The interface is also cumbersome.
Luca M.
Executive Office, 51-200 employees
Used other for less than 6 months
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AWFUL- legal is investigating with Paypal to get my money back- paypal is even issues with them from every customer
NOTHING - YOU cant use something that is not written in your language
The program are written in Chinese- so when you try to use them you don't know what to press. they don't have a US version even when they tell you that they do- they will take your money but never refund it. They will string you along - its a scam
Sarah P.
Consumer Services, 1-10 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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Octoparse lets our company free up time to do other projects. We are able to set up data projects in Octoparse and it goes right to work doing what we could never do in the amount of time it takes. We love using Octoaparse for our data scraping needs.
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.
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.
Sheng A.
Retail, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I love it. It does exactly what I want it to do no matter he simple or intricate it is.
I love how there is a workflow diagram so I can review what I am asking the software to do. It allows me to truly customize the information I want to scrape.
The free edition only allows for 10 scrape formulas
Masita Dwi Mandini M.
Research, 11-50 employees
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The trial version likes to create a trap for their user. They send a notification on the expired trial version on 7 days before and 2 minute before. For me is crazy to get 2 minute before notification. So if you kind a person how likes to forget the expired time of your trial version don't ever try this app, not worthty.
They have some template on crawling specific website
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.
Jeremy H.
Airlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Just go with another service that has support hours during the business day.
Pretty good set of features. That's all I can say about it.
Company is in China. If you need support you can't get it during the business day in the US. So support is you send one email on monday, they email you overnight, you email them tuesday, it is sooooo slow to make any progress on an issue.
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Consumer Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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it made lot simple our deployment process to push the changes to different clients at a time.
I liked the tentacles concept that will be useful to push the changes to more than one area/customer. it works really great to implement CI/CD when working with TeamCity to build your software. I like the creation of variable to manage different environments to deploy our product.
UI can be more enhanced for better quality. creation channels needs to be improved. it would be nice if we have an option to auto email option built in with results of each deployment.
Ponde O.
11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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This is web data extraction made simple and faster. Try it out
It is an outstanding product with very great capabilities especially for research work, and it is prizing is within reach.
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
Ron O.
Logistics and Supply Chain, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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I like how robust the features of this program are. It is one of the better scrapers I've used to product catalog information.
There is a pretty hefty learning curve for beginners. As an intermediate skilled user of scrapers myself I get what I'm looking for after a couple tries.
Bepa L.
5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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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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Yue S.
Used daily for 6-12 months
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I like Octoparse Cloud Service most. I need to update the data every day and the cloud service enables me to schedule the crawlers run daily on Octoparse cloud servers automatically without having to keep my computer on. This really save me a lot of time and help me get a lot of original data online for my academic research. Besides, I do appreciate they offer great discounts for us students. It is really helpful to me.
Sometimes the support replied a little late. It would be better if they could reply a little earlier.
Timohu A.
Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Nice and clean interface, the work flow panel is simple and user friendly. Ease of Use.
Customer support doesn't reply instantly, though they solve problems later, it's annoying sometimes.
K N.
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I have used octoparse for a client a couple of months ago, and I LOVED IT. I loved it enough to try it again for my business. I own a small virtual data entry business, I normally have real estate clients. So with octoparse a 7 Hours Job is cut down to 2 hours!!! I Kid You Not. I would definitely recommend this company to anyone that scrapes data for a living, it will cut down on hours and make your clients happy. I cannot wait to try the PRO Version of it.
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Howard H.
Research, self-employed
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After searching and searching for a data-service. I couldn't quite fine one that would meet my needs. Then came Octoparse. At first I was hesitant to use. However after watching several tutorials. I could tell the Octoparse team spent alot of time making it easy to use. Octoparse is an extremely powerful tool that has optimized and pushed our data scraping efforts to the next level. I would recommend...
The amazing and never-ending features
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Andy J.
Commercial Real Estate, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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The software is much easier to use, visually appealing, and on going customer support as well as tutorials have been created with the user in mind. Octoparse Web Scraper Experience: I have been looking professional web scraper for about two months now. I did try so many software's. Some was hidden mist! Most did not work at all. Then I did end up to get Octoparse web scraper! Wau! That cloud base...
easy to use.
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F. S.
Retail, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I have been crawling and parsing websites for a while, with use of php and cUrl. Years after years, it sounded clear that my extracting routines running on my server were more and more difficult to maintain in a good working shape. In fact, websites regularly change minor things on their pages, and in the best case, you wouldn't get anymore some or all of the awaited data, in the worse case, absolutely...
Barely, you can start to use it easily without never having heard about xPath
Not one single API link in free mode, not one possibility to upload a single - even limited - task in the cloud, to test the speed difference with local extraction...
Adriano S.
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We are using Octoparse to scrape pages, and we find it extremely powerful. The free tool is good for users that don't need to use many queriesm, and don't need more than 2000 results extracted. After that limit either you can buy the upgrades, or you can split the files. The wizard is simple, the advanced is rather difficult to use, if you are not a developer. We would love to use some of the advanced...
Free Easy to use
Advanced features a bit complicated
Thapakorn H.
Retail, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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"This application is very nice. Come with easy tool to extract all data records on website. There're many tutorial cases to allow beginner easily to start working. Thank you
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Marcin M.
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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When we were looking for an appropriate scraping software we tried every scraping program available on the market. After some days of testing it turned out that Octoparse is exactly that what we were looking for. This great and powerful tool completely outclasses competition in most of hard tasks: -it can load and pass through very complex and big websites -you can set more complex logic which...
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Sarah C.
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Octoparse is very easy to start an scraping task for newbie even though you don't need anything about programming. It is really very easy and convenient to use. Also, it could extract data from almost every website, websites with infinite scrolling down like Facebook and Twitter, websites requiring loggin like LinkedIn, websites with pagination, etc. However, sometimes it is stuck and would take quite a long time to extract the data in local machine. The cloud service is much better but it still has some problems. Hope it could improve the stability to make it a more user-friendly software.
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Ayman M.
Internet, self-employed
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Octoparse offers a free scraping GUI for everyone without coding experience. The free local extraction feature is enough for almost any business starter or data collector. I mean its great you can handle all types of pagination from infinite scroll or ajax called also including the normal button pagination. Its a nightmare to develop something like this from scratch using php. I mean Octoparse are...
Complete framework to scarp
GUI is a bit complicated
Rifqi N.
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I am a freelancer in the 3 largest online marketplace in Indonesia and of course social media since 2014 when I graduated high school, my job selling other people's products or so-called reseller or a dropshipper Sure you've heard To sell these products, of course I had to have a catalog package in advance, but a problem arises, not all sellers have their own catalog, so I had to copy every product...
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Andrew M.
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It took me about a day to look into all available web scrapers. At the end stopped on Octoparse for couple reasons. Pros: - Installs on Windows, so I could use spare Windows Server for scraping. No nodejs learning or programming needed. - GUI was simple to understand, can dump a list of links that need to be scraped, select content on the page that needs to go into Excel spreadsheet and click...
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enrico g.
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i tried this software, it is very simple to use and there are many video tutorials explaining how to run it. no code is necessary, very good. Software molto buono. Enrico Italy
easy to use and no code, free price
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