Octoparse

Score6 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Octoparse are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient and Easy-to-Use Tool: Users have found Octoparse to be an efficient and easy-to-use tool for extracting data from websites, especially for those with limited programming knowledge. Several reviewers have stated that the user-friendly experience and intuitive user interface make it easy to scrape data from websites with just a few clicks.

Accurate Data Export: Users appreciate the accuracy of the data exported by Octoparse, as it saves them a significant amount of time. Many customers have mentioned that Octoparse does not require any scripting knowledge, allowing them to simply enter the website and fetch the desired data accurately.

Scraping Large Amounts of Data: The software is highly regarded for its ability to scrape large amounts of data from websites and export them to spreadsheets without the need for coding. Some users have expressed their surprise at how quickly Octoparse can split jobs into multiple threads, resulting in quicker scraping than expected.

Reviews

4 Reviews

The effective web-scrapper and crawler

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Octoparse is a easy to use software for web-scrapping use cases. Application specific it is a very useful for large chunks of unorganised data of all kinds. Its a cloud-based web information extraction solution that assists clients with extricating pertinent data from different sorts of sites. It empowers clients from various enterprises to scratch unstructured information and save it in various configurations including Excel, plain text and HTML.

Pros

Web-scrapping
Importing the scrapped data in user-defined chunks
Extraction and organising of compliicated scrapped data
Different modes of extraction

Cons

Extraction of total crawling of data all-together aat once
Make it suitable for all environments use case as in MacOs, Linux versions , etc
The free version is restricted to low number of crawlers and simultaneous runs as well as 10.000 records in a single export.

Likelihood to Recommend

Octoparse is utilized to scratch item information from sites and programming projects that don't give XML or API and import them in web based businessAdditionally, it has solid capabilities to extract data from various types of sites, which is truly splendid.
However it is not suitable to be used only in the free version as the features and usecases are limited.The user woould not face issues in implementation in the premium version.
Implemetion specificallly in web-crawling does not require octoparse completely,but scrapping data, yes.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Octoparse for easy web scraping

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Octoparse was used to do contact scraping which helped to communicate with the customers for sales/marketing. It does web scraping very well and gives data in a file. No coding was needed in order to achieve this which solved the problem of hiring the web scraping experts to do this job.

Pros

Scheduled scraping
Saving of scrapped data into CSV and databases
Automatic IP rotation

Cons

Concurrent extractions can be improved.
Download the results in the form of graphs after processing (Could be the new feature).
Time to access extracted data from cloud.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's helpful when an organization wants to do marketing of their products, and observe the peer organization's data through web crawling. Also helpful in live data monitoring from some websites. Helpful in the case of research when one wants to segregate the data from a website in a short time and analyze it.

Verified User

Contributor in Engineering (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A great data scraping tool for conducting business research

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 19, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The pandemic has made the exhibition business difficult to run and we are exploring new businesses in international warehousing. This is a good tool to collect data for business research. I collected data like inventory, sales of online stores. It is mostly used by myself. In fact, we don't have a development team so I learned by following the guides and asking the support.

Pros

user design is easy to understand compared to other automation tools
the support team is helpful, they really answer
the software can get data into spreadsheets, and in a large number
there is a free plan to start

Cons

there is more about practical use: sometimes you need to wait for the data to show in the preview section
there can be more tutorials for scraping popular websites like shoppee, wayfair etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

I used Octoparse to get mostly ecommerce data and it is working well. I think it can get data from most web pages as long as you can see it on the pages. Because it is scraping the data by getting into the source code of the page or something. And it is good for people who do research: the software can organize and clean the data, so you are able to export structured data into Excel or CSV. This is convenient for further analysis.

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Research & Development (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Give it a shot. I bet it works for you.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Octoparse. Now this is an interesting company. I was recently promoted to Director of Sales and I knew that in order to get leads, I'd have to be able to scrape the web at my discretion and look for the data that I wanted. That being said I have 0 prior experience with this process before now. And make no mistake, it's technical. With all that in mind, I have only ever had to reach out to their customer service once for help. They responded the same day and I was off and running. Octoparse also has some YouTube videos that have proven helpful. Once I become more proficient with the program we're going to buy more licenses so I can teach more people in my company to use it for other projects.

Pros

Web Scraping.
Crawling.
Data Export.
Market Comparison Analysis.

Cons

Haven't had any issues with the program or company. But there's certainly a learning curve. More tutorial videos wouldn't hurt.

Likelihood to Recommend

Octoparse is good for web scraping and crawling. It has done everything I've ever asked it to with very few exceptions. With that in mind, I would think that if it wasn't able to preform a task, it's probably user error. I'm hesitant to reach out to their customer service team, as with the free plan you get what they call "community, lazy support" which makes it seem like they'll get to you when they feel like it. Not really complaining though, since I'm not paying for anything, so what can you expect? At any rate, I'd highly recommend them.

Peter Angel

Director of Sales in Sales at Suppllies Outlet (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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