Octoparse Pros and Cons

I like that Octoparse provides very good capabilities that allow you to:

You can continue to mine data anonymously without fear of the destination website blocking your IP.

Online page scraping is possible through anonymous rotating proxy servers.

You can extract data from dynamic websites that use AJAX and JavaScript.

It can extract web pages with tables, load more buttons, infinite scroll listings, category pages and search results pages using the auto-detect option.

Capable of extracting important information from numerous types of websites.

It allows you to extract unstructured data and save it in a variety of formats, including Excel, plain text, and HTML.

To run many extraction processes at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Octoparse customer service is only offered in a few languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Octoparse is a simple, reasonably priced web scraping/ data mining windows software. Octoparse is rich in features. It has inbuild web scrapping templates that allow the user to minor 98% of the websites without coding. You can extract text, links, image URLs, etc using Octoparse. You can run Octoparse 24x7 and schedule extraction tasks. Octoparse has an amazing interface. Data can be extracted in various formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Octoparse only runs in Windows. Customization can be an issue sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked Octoparse because it's easy to use and easy to learn. No coding just some mouse clicks and your page will be scraped. It comes with great features that helping you with pagination and authentication. Overall awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ِApp is somewhat slow in retrieving data but if you have a good internet and good computer there would be no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite is the simple template function of Octoparse, which is not available in other web scraping software. Octoparse can help me use templates directly to extract data. It is very fast and convenient, without any manual rule configuration. It is very practical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been waiting for the release of the Mac version of Octoparse. I heard that the Mac version will be available in early June. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No need to code and making work flow is as easy as dragging and dropping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Templates dont allow a lot of customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was really easy to install and some functionalities were very appealing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was very difficult to find my way around. I don't have much time to learn a new tool and it felt that the software requires significant time investment to be able to start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can scrape what ever website you want. They made it to look so easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Little to expensive for my taste but I understand that they have invested a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.