Octopus Data Inc

Terrible customer service, they do not honor their money back guarantee and will try every way to not uphold it. Try at your own risk or go to parsehub which is safer and more reliable.

I have been using Octoparse for 2 years, and what I like most about it are the user-friendly interface and powerful features it offers. With Octoparse, I can easily create web scraping workflows using its intuitive interface. The built-in browser allows me to interact with web pages and select the data elements I need. The extraction features, such as XPath and CSS selectors, make it effortless to target specific data on websites. Octoparse handles complexities like pagination and login forms seamlessly, making the scraping process smooth. I also appreciate the flexibility to define custom extraction rules and select specific data fields. Octoparse can handle even the most complex websites with dynamic content or JavaScript rendering. Additionally, the option to schedule and automate data extraction tasks is a time-saver.

The cons about Octoparse are when using the free version of Octoparse; it restricts the scraped data to a maximum of 10,000 rows. This can be a limitation for users who need to extract larger volumes of data.

Then, when using the standard version, it is great that it has a feature to run the scrapping process in the cloud. But it has a slow Connectivity in cloud scraping, so I have occasionally experienced slow connectivity or intermittent issues when using Octoparse's cloud scraping feature. This can result in incomplete scraping of data, causing inconvenience and potentially requiring additional efforts to retrieve the missing data.

Overall, Octoparse is a great tool, providing a user-friendly experience and powerful features that simplify data mining and extraction. What makes Octoparse even more impressive is that it enables data mining without requiring extensive coding knowledge.