OCTOPARSE OLD VERSION SOFTWARE
OCTOPARSE OLD VERSION PROFESSIONAL

OCTOPARSE OLD VERSION SOFTWARE

It has safe me some much time! Same jobs would take me hours before and now data is collected in few minutes! When I need a quick way to grab structured web data, Octoparse software will be my first choice. Octoparse software It has enabled me to ingest a large number of data point and focus my time on statistical analysis vs. Octoparse is easy to use interface no experience scrapping websites is needed - but can do a lot. I think nobody can find better software to scrape data from web. there is no smoother way of web scraping! The software has never given me any issues. I definitely recommend! I use Octoparse on a daily basis and at my organization. Software works even with some of the complex website. Then I did end up to get Octoparse web scraper! Wau! That cloud base software was exactly what I was looking for! This software really works. Some was hidden mist! Most did not work at all.

OCTOPARSE OLD VERSION PROFESSIONAL

Octoparse Web ScraperĮxperience: I have been looking professional web scraper for about two months now. 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. and money (as far as I'm able to set up the APIs

It should definitively help me to gain a lot of time. But you can make it more robust and edit it in the advanced mode. The only drawback I have noticed, is that Octoparse uses mostly children/children/children xpath ways, that seems, to me, less robust than locations with specific attributes like class, id, or others, when Wizard Mode is used. You can even save a data extraction configuration files, to be used in new project, or elsewhere. I've been using kind of Xpath for years with php. and you don't need to start with it : Start with smart, or with wizard, and then Edit in Advanced Mode. but Octoparse tries to do it for you.īut of course, the Advanced Mode is the most important part. Sometimes you need to find alternate ones. Smart Mode and Wizard mode make it easy to find the data, often at first sight. hidden behind an 'Display' Ajax button that I wasn't able to deal with (with php / cUrl)ġ0 tasks are offered for free, and as far I know, won't be public tasks as it's the case with some of Octoparse competitors because I was unable to access the most important part of the data I needed. as if it wouldn't be any ajax routines on the pages. I gave a try to some scraping tools, and my final choice was made to Octoparse.Ījax is handled as easy as a basic html url. So, I had to find a way to still be able to extract my needed data, without having to pass an engineer degree in information technology. and the dynamic pages that don't load at first sight, that wait for you to click on a button, that just show as you scroll down, that exchange static pictures urls with javascipt dynamically shown pictures.

Then came for me (and I must admit, my limited skills) THE hammer : AJAX ! Yes, html + Javascipt + css + dom. 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 inaccurate data.

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. I have been crawling and parsing websites for a while, with use of php and cUrl. I wish I had discovered this jewel years ago.

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