Octoparse Erfahrungen

Excellent software for web data extraction

Kommentare: We use Octoparse for academic and research purposes, and in this regard the program has met all expectations. Likewise, many of my students say that the program is easy to use and have adopted it as a key tool in their work as a key tool to increase their productivity.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

My Octoparse Experience

Kommentare: I am using it almost evry day, and I am happy with the maintenance.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

Unable to Extract Data from Cloudflare Websites

Kommentare: Horrible company. I would not recommend anyone do business with them.

Vorteile:

Nothing. They were unable to solve my business problem. I wanted to parse/scrape a particular website and the Octoparse service was unable to get past the Cloudflare anti-bot technology. I found a competing service that worked much better.

Nachteile:

They were unable to solve my business problem. I wanted to parse/scrape a particular website and the Octoparse service was unable to get past the Cloudflare anti-bot technology. I found a competing service that worked much better. Additionally, they were unwilling to refund the charges made to my credit card, despite their claim they would remind me before making any charges (they did not send any reminders). I contacted them the day of the charges, and they still would not refund me. I had to contest the charges.

Octoparse Data Extraction works!

Kommentare: It has been 5 star. The staff helps and solves issues every time we need them. and we get expert advise when designing our datasets. Best extractor for the money hands down!!

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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

Become a data champion

Kommentare: Love Octoparse for web scraping and data extraction, really easy tool to use and actually very inexpensive. The UI is easy to navigate and if you run into issues the CS team can look into the issue and provide you with fixes (they told me what code to add and where to fix an issue I was having).
You don't even need any developer or coding experience.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

Great product for the price

Kommentare: I think it is a valuable tool for the price and customer support is key in my useage.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

OctoParse Works

Kommentare: My overall experience has been good. I've been able to use the tool to scrape the sites I needed. Support has been very good as well.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

The best for web scraping

Kommentare: We have been working with the free version for several months and, after that, we got the PROFESSIONAL PLAN. There is a huge difference in terms of amount of data and speed of downloading. The support is great, they helped us in many issues.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Great tool for all things related to web scraping!

Kommentare: Amazing - We love it! Team is great and the resigned user face looks so great!

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

Great tool, easy to learn and use

Kommentare: Overall I’m verry happy with the tool, it saves me and my team a lot of time.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Octoparse as the most friendly and intuitive web data extraction tool

Kommentare: I have tried about 20 web data extraction software incl. online ones and desktop apps. I have stopped at Octoparse as for me it appeared to be the best option because: 1. it offers a "linear" (in the good sense) and convergent workflow for a job versus the rather messy and distractingly branching/forking semantics of the process of other software where after a certain point you lose the touch/control because of steeply growing complexity along the steps of the workflow (this problem with other software is even more severe when the workflow steps are named in quite an arbitrary manner by the vendor leaving you without any clues as to what the given step is about or how you are supposed to carry it out, etc.);
2. its workflow is simple/straightforward, friendly and intuitive - with Octoparse you do not need hours or days of training/reading of instructions, tutorials, etc. as is the case with the other software I have tried/tried to go through; the process is highly structured and coherent in Octoparse;
3. it does not require any specialized/professional skills of any kind of coding. As a possible drawback I would point to the relatively weak consistency among the offerred 4 modes of extraction. I have noticed that there are a few inconsistencies in step logic mapping/matching across some of them, but I have not explored all of them to be honest, so this problem may in fact be less significant. Thank you.

Vorteile:

- it is simple, friendly, intuitive and features a linear/convergent (in the good sense) process of interaction - it does not take even hours of training/reading the instructions, tutorials - you start using it straight away - it does not require any coding skills

Nachteile:

- relatively weak consistency in the logics of workflow steps across/among the four modes of extraction

Perfect option for automating data scraping

Kommentare: Without getting into coding scripts, Octoparse is hands down the best system that I tested for automated data scraping. I tried other RPA and scraping systems and each one had serious deficiencies.

Vorteile:

I used Octoparse to automate the process of scraping product data from e-commerce marketplaces like Etsy. This made it extremely easy. I signed up for a paid account and it was so nice to have jobs run in the cloud without having to run them on my local machine. Scraping large amounts of data was also a lot quicker than I thought it would be because it splits the jobs into multiple threads.

Nachteile:

The overall UX would be simplified and improved a bit. It takes time to learn the quirks and get working. Some of the quirks I encountered I think had more to do with the structure of the data on the site than with Octoparse. That being said, I still feel like it could be simplified a bit more.

Octoparse is the best web scraping tool to extract data!

Vorteile:

I like Octoparse cloud service best. It allows me to schedule my task and run at regular time, thus I could get the updated data automatically every day. Also, it has strong functions to extract different kinds of websites, which is really brilliant. The pricing is acceptable compared to other data extraction tools, no matter to say that it provides discounts for journalism.

Nachteile:

It would take you a little time to start your first task. But with the help of its detailed tutorials, you could finally make it.

Helpful Extraction Tool!

Vorteile:

Point-and-Click interface. this feature makes me feel arranged while I'm using Octoparse, it's clear to see which step I am in, and what step should I do next.

Nachteile:

Customer Support. the customer supports dont reply instantly, sometimes it takes hours to reply my e-mails.

Web Scraping

Kommentare: Octoparse is the best software for web data extraction software.It is fast and get data from all the pages without putting a single pieces of code, just design your workflow and all the data will be exported in excel or you can integrate with a database. It a software that is extremely easy to use and navigate,once you start using it , you will feel that is very important for your business and your ordinary job.
For me this software was a solution for my problems , and now i don't get the data i want manually but i have octaparse, and i am very happy i got it.

Vorteile:

Performance,easy to use,get data from all websites

Intuitive scraping tool

Kommentare: Great tool and interface for extracting information from a a large number of sites quickly. They provide an initial tutorial to explain how to setup a task. The graphical interface makes the necessity for coding non-existent. Has a lot of functionality that I'm still exploring - ability to run from the cloud and to schedule extractions. From what I gather, the customer support is pretty strong and responsive. I would like the tutorial to include something besides the entire block content extraction. Would like to understand how to extract a particular element (e.g., phone numbers). There are some clunky features - like the different "fields" vs. "operations" vs. "tasks" aren't explained too in-depth, but with some navigating, it is easy enough to use. The free version allows you to run 10 tasks, which provides enough exposure to understand if you need the paid version - a strong indicator that they stand behind their product.
Overall, a useful and appropriately priced tool with good functionality - could use some UI improvements, but gets the job done.

Vorteile:

- Good graphical interface so no coding necessary. - Has a tutorial to introduce you to their workflow. - Good functionality for the pricepoint. - Free trial period.

Nachteile:

- Could use more support on how to perform specific tasks - maybe a FAQ?

Traped

Kommentare: I try to crawl some literature ecom articles using their template, but it doesn't work, it kept to freeze. So crawling the data was impossible, the system will stopped before finished the entire data crawling.

Vorteile:

website showing you that is a great software...

Nachteile:

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

Great web scraping tool to extract data online!

Vorteile:

Octoparse is able to extract almost every website. With the powerful XPath selector, it could specify locate the items that I want to scrape. Besides, there are plenty of tutorials available online to help me quickly master Octoparse. It's really very helpful. Compared to other web scraping tools, the price is relatively acceptable. But if you think it's too expensive, you could also choose the free one, whose function is also very powerful.

Nachteile:

It couldn't extract the images directly. It could only extract the URLs of the images and I have to use other application to download the images.

Very functional! Helpful for my work!!!

Vorteile:

Very functional! I can scrape almost any data on web with this software! Save massive time for me looking through customers' profiles!

Nachteile:

The original price is a bit high, but recently I noticed there are some discounts on Octoparse's website.

Octoparse is a good web data extraction tool even for programmers!

Vorteile:

Octoparse is a good data extraction tool that could extract data from almost every website. You don't need to write the code separately yourself to scrape different website. Octoparse could handle all these problems. Besides, Octoparse Cloud Service also allows you to get the updated data automatically without keeping your machine working by scheduling your task. This does help me a lot.

Nachteile:

Very few websites aren't compatible with Octoparse built-in browser. I really hope that their specialist could deal with this problem in the near future.

Easy to use

Kommentare: The software can download and use for free, of course you should pay for some advanced functions if you want. But as a primary user without any knowledge of programming the basic version is completely enough. The scrape rules are easy to be set, and I can even talk to the technical support team of Octoparse and ask for help. So far so good, and I will study some other features of Octoparse. It is a actual good tool for e-commerce.

Seems great; too bad it's Windows-only

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

reduce repetitive work

Kommentare: good value

Vorteile:

I was manually going through the linkedin sales navigator to check on changes to a saved search I had done. After setting up Octoparse, it grabs all the changes to my saved search and saves them into a google sheet that eliminates a lot of clicks to get to the same information. I also saved a lot of time.

Nachteile:

It's a point-and-click software, which takes a while. It was worth it after automating my previously manual process.

Octoparse is a great tool!

Kommentare: I've been using Octoparse for about 6 months now. I must say that it has changed my attitude toward data collection. Sometimes I did those kind of activities manually which was very time consuming. So Octoparse saved me a lot of time. At first learning how to use it on pages which don't want data scraping was a little bit of hustle but I managed it on my own (I don't have any coding skills). If it wasn't for Octoparse I wouldn't do it.

Vorteile:

saves a lot of time

Nachteile:

you need to learn hov to use it but it is a powerful tool

Octoparse is a great extraction product!

Kommentare: I collect customers profile and analyze ones willingness of buying funds.

Vorteile:

It is very easy to use and you don't need to have any experience on web scraping before. No need to code, tutorials are easy to understand, that helps much for some laymen like me!

Nachteile:

Nothing much, but my computer becomes laggy when I used Octoparse. The Octoparse supports said that it will get better when the next version comes out.