OctoparseWhat is Octoparse?
It is a free client-side Windows web scraping software that turns unstructured or semi-structured data from websites into structured data sets, no coding necessary. Extracted data can be exported as API, CSV, Excel or exported into a database.
Octoparse is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Point-and-Click InterfaceSimply point and click web dataAutomatically extract all the data in similar layoutNo coding required for most 98% websitesExtract text, image URLs, links, etcExtract data from listing pages, sites with infinite scrolling, pagination, etcExtract data from dropdown menusExtract data behind loginExtract data loaded with AJAX, JavaScript, etcAutomatically generates XpathBuilt-in XPath toolBuilt-in RegEx toolExtract data using cloud servers 24/7
Extract and store your data on the cloud platformAutomatic IP rotation -- Avoiding IP being blacklistedScheduled extraction tasks
Octoparse Pros & Cons
Pros of Octoparse
- ✓Cloud extraction
- ✓Easy to use
- ✓API
- ✓Auto-detection
- ✓Great support
- ✓Web Scraping Template
- ✓Great support
Cons of Octoparse
No cons listed yet.
Octoparse Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Octoparse?
Scrapy
It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
BeautifulSoup
It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
Apify
Apify is a platform that enables developers to create, customize and run cloud-based programs called actors that can, among other things, be used to extract data from any website using a few lines of JavaScript.
import.io
import.io is a free web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in your hands. Using our tools you can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required.
