Import.io vs. Octoparse

Import.io

5 Reviews and Ratings

Octoparse

12 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Import.io	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Import.io is a website data importing or web scraping service, from the company of the same name headquartered in Saratoga. In February 2019 Import.io acquired Connnotate, another web scraping service. Connotate is now part of Import.io.	N/A
Octoparse	Score 6.3 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Octoparse is a free web scraping software that turns unstructured or semi-structured data from any website into structured datasets, no coding needed. Extracted data can be exported as API, CSV, Excel, HTML, TXT, or into a database. It’s a free tool for data analysis and mining. Scraping the web on a large scale simultaneously, based on distributed computing, is the most powerful feature of	$89 per month

Pricing

Import.io

Octoparse

Editions & Modules

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Standard Plan: $89
per month
Standard Plan: $890
per year
Professional Plan: $890
per month
Professional Plan: $1,890
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Import.io	Octoparse
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$89 per month

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Community Pulse
	Import.io	Octoparse
Considered Both Products	Import.io Verified User Engineer Chose Import.io Import.io excels at creating a scraping campaign tailored to your needs in a matter of minutes. It's ideal if you need to scrape data on a regular basis, whether on a large or small scale. After you've created a scraping crawler, you can simply run it and return after lunch to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Import.io There are pros and cons to import.io the strongest being that it is extremely easy to set up and use as there are wizards and guides built in to hold your hand throughout the process but at the same token it does not have all the full-featured bells and whistles you may need … Incentivized Helpful?	Octoparse No answer on this topic
Top Pros	Pro No coding Pro Extremely simple Pro Simple to use	Pro Set up Pro Support team Pro Easy to learn
Top Cons	Minus Open source Minus Desktop application Minus Task at hand	Minus Video tutorials Minus Learning curve Minus No mobile app

User Ratings
	Import.io	Octoparse
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	6.3 (4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Import.io	Octoparse
Likelihood to Recommend	Import.io We used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology. You could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways, which I used in my own research. Connotate's analysis was not as useful to me as the data itself, because we were using it to inform us of trends rather than make decisions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Import.io Scrapes specific parts of webpages Crawls pages and scrapes based on patterns you specify via examples Very effective and accurate when it comes to scraping data of large URL lists Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Import.io Stability. software frequently crashed previously. Training. Students had a had time understanding how to use the tool, and then where to use it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc Haven't had any issues with the program or company. But there's certainly a learning curve. More tutorial videos wouldn't hurt. Incentivized PA Peter Angel Director of Sales Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Import.io I do not think I would have the budget to use it currently. When using it previously, was working with the developers to improve the product and was given accounts at no cost Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Import.io [We selected Import.io because] They were top ranking in SEO. I will never work with them again though. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Import.io It really helped to collect large chunks of data from the web. When compared to writing a script from scratch, it is very simple to use for creating a web agent. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Octopus Data Inc it gives profound database for my research and make the whole process a lot more easier. the power of automation! Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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