The effective web-scrapper and crawler
Updated April 29, 2023

The effective web-scrapper and crawler

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Octoparse

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.
  • Web-scrapping
  • Importing the scrapped data in user-defined chunks
  • Extraction and organising of compliicated scrapped data
  • Different modes of extraction
  • 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.
  • Web-crawliing
  • Data-scrapping
  • Exporting of data
  • Thoroughly slithering every single part of the information was difficult to implement.
  • Sometimes, the framework crashes before completion of the entire crawling.
  • The scrapping was effective and effiecient enough on large chunks of organized data. It takes quite a time to complete the objective but is surely worth it.
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.

Do you think Octoparse delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Octoparse's feature set?

Yes

Did Octoparse live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Octoparse go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Octoparse again?

Yes

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.