Apify vs. Octoparse

It is common practice for developers to search for REST endpoints on other websites in order to retrieve data from other websites in a structured format such as JSON. However, not all websites have built distinct REST APIs; in this situation, Apify is quite beneficial. The majority of the time, the data that an organization collects is what is considered to be of the utmost importance. In comparison to the other systems that are currently accessible, Apify makes it simple to supply clean data.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Fast response time, easy to talk to on human and technical level.
• Scalable solution capable of adding additional feature requirements.
• Well documented API, we are able to do some changes by ourselves.

• 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

• Managing a big number of people and tasks.
• Larger scale monitoring system.
• Allow users to search and replace datasets by enhancing APIs.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have.

Although the purposes and aims of all three products vary widely, I have found Apify to be the most effective option for web scraping for academic purposes. As someone with only a few months' worths of experience with web scraping, I have found Apify's detailed blog posts and very friendly customer support invaluable in my research.

Other similar products like webautomation.io and webscarpper.io were tried and implemented along with Octoparse. Thier trial versions have much more limited features. The complexity while using Octoparse is relatively low and much more effecient and powerful to implement as compared to other softwares. Also usecases are quick to learn and implement.

Incentivized

• Data gathering process is fully automized with high relevance output.
• Data are up-to-date with minimum delay.
• We use extra time for better decision making process instead of report preparation.

• it gives profound database for my research and make the whole process a lot more easier. the power of automation!