# Page 3 | Octoparse Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is Octoparse the right Data Extraction solution for you? Explore 106 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/150508/Octoparse/reviews --- Octoparse 4.7 (106) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of Octoparse ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 106 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use AG Andrew G. CFO Management Consulting Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product for the price" July 9, 2024 5.0 I think it is a valuable tool for the price and customer support is key in my useage. Pros Customer support is very quick and reliable. Able to solve issues quickly with a thorough explanation. Cons No PDF support. There are times where super basic and the super complicated sites are not easy to capture. Switched from [Mozenda](https://www.capterra.com/p/102193/Mozenda/) I was a long time user and the price became unreasonable. Review Source JPM JUAN PEDRO M. Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The best for web scraping" July 10, 2024 5.0 We have been working with the free version for several months and, after that, we got the PROFESSIONAL PLAN. There is a huge difference in terms of amount of data and speed of downloading. The support is great, they helped us in many issues. Pros It is easy to use and detect fields in an automatic way. Cons It takes time to learn some features and options. It is easier than other software but still not completly automatic. Alternatives considered [ParseHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/145965/ParseHub/)[import.io](https://www.capterra.com/p/135185/import-io/)[Apify](https://www.capterra.com/p/150854/Apify/) Reason for choosing Octoparse We were very satisfied with the free version. Review Source RR Rémi R. Gérant Program Development Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Très bon logiciel de web scraping" May 14, 2024 5.0 Pros Ce que j'ai le plus apprécié chez Octoparse, c'est son interface, même sans une expertise approfondie en programmation, j'ai pu facilement naviguer à travers les différentes fonctionnalités et créer des tâches de web scraping avec une grande facilité, habituellement ce genre de logiciel ne sont pas très pratiques Après tout était très efficace et beaucoup plus simple que le faire à la main bien évidemment... Cons La version gratuite d'Octoparse a quelques limitations, notamment en termes de nombre de pages pouvant être scrapées par tâche et de fréquence de mise à jour des données. Bien que compréhensible, cela peut être un inconvénient pour ceux qui ont besoin de fonctionnalités plus avancées sans avoir à passer à une version payante. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Researcher Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Web Scrapping made Easy" June 16, 2023 5.0 The best automated web scrapper I have ever used. I have been using it for more than a year now and it has helped me so much in my data collection. Pros The best thing about Octoparse is that it gets all the critical components just perfect for you to start web scraping. Cons The auto-detection of the webpage can be a hindrance. At times, you would need to manually build the scraping automation to get it right. Review Source FS F. S. CEO Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "I wish I had discovered this jewel years ago..." March 8, 2017 4.0 I have been crawling and parsing websites for a while, with use of php and cUrl. Years after years, it sounded clear that my extracting routines running on my server were more and more difficult to maintain in a good working shape. In fact, websites regularly change minor things on their pages, and in the best case, you wouldn't get anymore some or all of the awaited data, in the worse case, absolutely inaccurate data. Then came for me (and I must admit, my limited skills) THE hammer : AJAX ! Yes, html + Javascipt + css + dom... and the dynamic pages that don't load at first sight, that wait for you to click on a button, that just show as you scroll down, that exchange static pictures urls with javascipt dynamically shown pictures.. In two word : a nightmare ! So, I had to find a way to still be able to extract my needed data, without having to pass an engineer degree in information technology... had to be fast, had to be robust ! I gave a try to some scraping tools, and my final choice was made to Octoparse. Several reasons for it : easy to set up lots of tutorials to start easily Ajax is handled as easy as a basic html url... as if it wouldn't be any ajax routines on the pages. It's really what make me give a try... because I was unable to access the most important part of the data I needed... hidden behind an 'Display' Ajax button that I wasn't able to deal with (with php / cUrl) 10 tasks are offered for free, and as far I know, won't be public tasks as it's the case with some of Octoparse competitors Smart Mode and Wizard mode make it easy to find the data, often at first sight. Sometimes you need to find alternate ones... but Octoparse tries to do it for you. But of course, the Advanced Mode is the most important part ... and you don't need to start with it : Start with smart, or with wizard, and then Edit in Advanced Mode... and extract with accuracy what you need. I've been using kind of Xpath for years with php... but here, its easy and clear. You can even save a data extraction configuration files, to be used in new project, or elsewhere. The only drawback I have noticed, is that Octoparse uses mostly children/children/children xpath ways, that seems, to me, less robust than locations with specific attributes like class, id, or others, when Wizard Mode is used. But you can make it more robust and edit it in the advanced mode. It should definitively help me to gain a lot of time... and money (as far as I'm able to set up the APIs Pros Barely, you can start to use it easily without never having heard about xPath Cons Not one single API link in free mode, not one possibility to upload a single - even limited - task in the cloud, to test the speed difference with local extraction... Review Source Aris G. Web Developer Consumer Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Octoparse for Professional Web Scraping" January 12, 2021 5.0 We scrape product data from suppliers and import them to our ecommerce and sync their prices and stock availability, and we do so even though our suppliers that fall into the scraping category do not provide XML or API but do have worthy products! Pros We use Octoparse to scrape product data from some of our suppliers that do not provide XML or API and import them to our ecommerce. We like the IP rotation feature because even the suppliers that provide XML or API block our requests, especially image links when we are trying to scrape them and download them, so IP rotation prevents us from this when we scrape data from users that do not provide XML/API. Cons The free plan is limited to low number of crawlers and concurrent runs as well as 10.000 records per export. It does not affect the companies though because companies like ours use the Standard or Professional plan. Review Source TS Taylor S. Data & AI Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Support seems to be nonexsistent" August 3, 2023 4.0 Pros Unfortunately I have such a bad taste in my mouth at this point I cannot remember Cons Octoparse, unfortunately, turned out to be a huge disappointment for me. I decided to try their software on a trial basis, and initially, I thought it had some potential. However, after spending only an hour using it, I realized that it didn't meet my needs, especially considering its steep price point. As a freelancer, it simply didn't fit within my budget.I made sure to cancel my trial to avoid getting stuck with an expensive monthly subscription. But to my dismay, I noticed a charge on my credit card the day after my trial ended. Immediately, I contacted Octoparse, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and explained that I believed I had canceled in time. I asked for a refund, as I had no intention of continuing to use their platform.Despite reaching out to them multiple times through various channels, I received no response for a whole week. And now, it has been a frustrating three months, and Octoparse has completely ignored my inquiries. It's incredibly disappointing to see a company offer a support email and then not bother responding to their customers. It's not just about the money, but the principle of providing decent customer support and acknowledging their mistakes.In the software industry, things may not always be perfect, but what sets companies apart is how they handle their customers and address issues. For Octoparse, I have to say, their lack of responsiveness and disregard for their customers is unacceptable. I would strongly advise them to get their Review Source AM Andrew M. Used the software for: ### "Easy to start using, no coding required." March 2, 2017 5.0 It took me about a day to look into all available web scrapers. At the end stopped on Octoparse for couple reasons. Pros: - Installs on Windows, so I could use spare Windows Server for scraping. No nodejs learning or programming needed. - GUI was simple to understand, can dump a list of links that need to be scraped, select content on the page that needs to go into Excel spreadsheet and click start. That's it, no need to select specific HTML divs or write regex code. Don't know how, but this was the only scraper that could analyze and grab a specific text on the page without setting any rules, the other scrapers I've tried had a hard time and had to make complicated rules. - During scraping opens the pages in a real browser, so Javascript, AJAX websites would work as well. - You can export to Excel, directly to SQL, MYSQ or Oracle database, CSV, TXT or HTML file. - You can also back up your scraped data to Octoparse as a backup, will be saved with your task. - Configuration and scraper apps run in different programs. If one suddenly would to shut down because of some error, other Octoparse tasks would still continue to work as nothing has happened. Cons: - Had a hard time adding a list of 50000 links into the queue, but not a problem because you can have multiple tasks 30-40K links in my case, just divide links between those tasks. - Did not say anywhere that it was saving the tasks to their servers, so that's why probably has trouble with large tasks. On the other hand, this one is also a Pro, because you can create tasks on your computer and load them up on your server just by restarting the app. Overall: You can have 2 active tasks running at the same time for free, if you want more, you can upgrade to a paid version. It takes about a second to open a page, so roughly you can scrape one page per second per task. Overall this worked better than great. Did not have to ask our devs to write a scraper, the time I spent creating the scraper would be the same amount of time I would spend discussing with our devs how to scrape the content. And now devs are asking me for stats on scraped data, not the other way around. If you do any marketing and wish to gather data for stats or just create your database from any website, super easy to do, recommend it. Review Source MM Marcin M. Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best scraper." March 3, 2017 5.0 When we were looking for an appropriate scraping software we tried every scraping program available on the market. After some days of testing it turned out that Octoparse is exactly that what we were looking for. This great and powerful tool completely outclasses competition in most of hard tasks: -it can load and pass through very complex and big websites -you can set more complex logic which is very useful even if rarely used -there are practically no websites that Octoparse can't load, doesn't matter on what base and system they were built -friendly environment, with easy to use GUI -great support with honest, and kind people. -and everything without a single line of script which is great! There are, of course, some cons too, because nothing is perfect and that's a normal thing. Sometimes program hangs on some sites. After some observations, it came out that it is not a website problem. It happens on sites that are built similar to for example Wikipedia, which construction is practically the same under every link. Probably it is not the API in workflow for designer too, because it is about simple: loop by list of URL -> extract data. Especially when there are more links. Sometimes it shows that site is still loading, sometimes just hangs on one opened page for hours to then just move on. I note that I used all program options, including advanced options too including timeout limit, reload web page and every other option. Nothing has helped. Finally, functionalities and enhancements that can be added in the future to Octoparse, to further improve it: Example situation: We add a 100 links to the program and 17 of them failed to execute. We found out that reload website option is unclear. If we e.g. use proxy and the connection will fail with it, we can now use other proxy or few proxies depending on settings. It will be great if i.e. one proxy will fail at connection in specified number of attempts (let's say 5-15 attempts) then Octoparse will delete this proxy or mark it as malfunctioning and avoid it in the future, still returning these 17 bad link in scores. And it will be even better if score list after export will have links that failed to execute, just mark them in a separate column, or add website status error code or something. This can help in retry to get data from the websites that failed to load. Review Source AS Adriano S. Used the software for: ### "Best free scraper softare" March 6, 2017 5.0 We are using Octoparse to scrape pages, and we find it extremely powerful. The free tool is good for users that don't need to use many queriesm, and don't need more than 2000 results extracted. After that limit either you can buy the upgrades, or you can split the files. The wizard is simple, the advanced is rather difficult to use, if you are not a developer. We would love to use some of the advanced functionalities, if they could be 'moved' to the simple side (considering that the scraper is intended mostly for nondevelopers). The wizard mode gives you the possibility to choose between: 1. list or table extraction 2. list and detail extraction 3. URL list extraction 4. single page extraction Depending on your needs, it could be good to extract all the fields from a single page (point 4) or extract data in the form of a table (page 1). We mainly use list and detail extraction, where you just need to provide a result page of a query on a first step, in and define the list of similar URLs you need to extract. Octoparse will detect the list automatically just after your second selection. On the next step you would need to instruct Octoparse on the fields you wish to extract. For each field, you can decide to extract the text, the inner HTML, the outer HTML, or the links behind the text (for example email addresses or internet addresses). We find this functionality extremely good. In the simple mode (free) the speed is based on your computer and on your internet speed. If you don't need to extract more than 2000 pages per time, the free version is good enough. If instead, you upgrade to the most advanced plans, you can use the speed of multiple servers CPU and run many tasks at the same time. If the list and extraction are not providing results, because it is difficult for Octopars to find out the URLs on a result page, we do use the URL list extraction. With this functionality you simply provide the crawler with a list of similar URL you need to crawl and the rest will be done automatically. Pros Free Easy to use Cons Advanced features a bit complicated Review Source Ponde O. Monitoring And Evaluation Officer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Octoparse is a powerful data extraction tool and it has added so much value to my job" May 8, 2018 4.0 This is web data extraction made simple and faster. Try it out Pros It is an outstanding product with very great capabilities especially for research work, and it is prizing is within reach. Cons It took some time before i was confident of my capabilities to use the App, but I can surely say that it is worth the time sacrificed to know how it works Review Source HA Hayk A. Founder Management Consulting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse as the most friendly and intuitive web data extraction tool" March 8, 2017 5.0 I have tried about 20 web data extraction software incl. online ones and desktop apps. I have stopped at Octoparse as for me it appeared to be the best option because: 1. it offers a "linear" (in the good sense) and convergent workflow for a job versus the rather messy and distractingly branching/forking semantics of the process of other software where after a certain point you lose the touch/control because of steeply growing complexity along the steps of the workflow (this problem with other software is even more severe when the workflow steps are named in quite an arbitrary manner by the vendor leaving you without any clues as to what the given step is about or how you are supposed to carry it out, etc.); 2. its workflow is simple/straightforward, friendly and intuitive - with Octoparse you do not need hours or days of training/reading of instructions, tutorials, etc. as is the case with the other software I have tried/tried to go through; the process is highly structured and coherent in Octoparse; 3. it does not require any specialized/professional skills of any kind of coding. As a possible drawback I would point to the relatively weak consistency among the offerred 4 modes of extraction. I have noticed that there are a few inconsistencies in step logic mapping/matching across some of them, but I have not explored all of them to be honest, so this problem may in fact be less significant. Thank you. Pros \- it is simple, friendly, intuitive and features a linear/convergent (in the good sense) process of interaction - it does not take even hours of training/reading the instructions, tutorials - you start using it straight away - it does not require any coding skills Cons \- relatively weak consistency in the logics of workflow steps across/among the four modes of extraction Review Source Andrea G. CMO & Co-founder Consumer Electronics Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very useful even with the free version" July 31, 2022 4.0 Pros With the free version, you have many choices to run specific data extraction programs. In addition to it, you can choose among pre-built receipts so that you can start extracting data in no time. Cons UI is a bit complicated and I found some issues installing the Mac version of the app. Review Source AM Ayman M. Web developer Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse is the best free solution for web scraping " March 2, 2017 5.0 Octoparse offers a free scraping GUI for everyone without coding experience. The free local extraction feature is enough for almost any business starter or data collector. I mean its great you can handle all types of pagination from infinite scroll or ajax called also including the normal button pagination. Its a nightmare to develop something like this from scratch using php. I mean Octoparse are like the middle man from the web and the perfect excel sheet with all data collected inside it formatted into columns and perfect rows just need to be adjusted into charts. Although the gui is a bit complicated for someone new to the software , the tutorials are very easy to track and the moving pictures for every step are awesome. After investing some time developing the local extraction mechanism ,you can export the project to the cloud extraction as it will be much easier to use also because that is the logical step for the next move if you want to scrap large scales of data or you dont have to worry about schedule , it is in the cloud and running smoothly. The API integration also make it easier to use the data. Exporting the data via API is one of the solutions , you also can export them in various file formats including csv. You can build mobile app directly on the API and with some patience you can get more reliable data at your hand any time. I am as a wordpress developer use the api to integrate in the wordpress itself including other plugins like the woocommerce for eCommerce platform. Giant price comparison companies use the sam emethod to scarp data and publish them to their web , we can do the same with much less work using Octoparse ! Why to re-invent the wheel ?! time is money ! Pros Complete framework to scarp Cons GUI is a bit complicated Review Source Jeremy H. N/A Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Company is in China - Can't Get Good Support" December 10, 2018 3.0 Just go with another service that has support hours during the business day. Pros Pretty good set of features. That's all I can say about it. Cons Company is in China. If you need support you can't get it during the business day in the US. So support is you send one email on monday, they email you overnight, you email them tuesday, it is sooooo slow to make any progress on an issue. Review Source AH Andy H. E-commerce Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse is a great web scraper to make a price monitor!" August 15, 2017 5.0 Pros Octoparse is really a great data extraction tool to scrape product information online. As a e-commerce owner, I need to keep an eye on price. With the help of Octoparse cloud service, I just need to make a simple crawler(no coding needed actually) to extract the product price and then schedule the crawler to run every day automatically to get the updated data. It really saves me a lot of time and the extracted data helps me make a wise strategy. That's why I choose the premium plan despite of the powerful function of the free plan. Furthermore, Octoparse now is offering great discounts for new users and give continuous support to the old users. It is really worth a try. Cons Some websites need to modify the XPath if you want to exactly get the data you want. This would be a little difficult for me at first. But with the help of abundant tutorials and XPath tool, I finally got it! Review Source YS Yue S. Medical Student Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Octoparse is really a good data extraction tool. It helps me a lot for my academic research." August 4, 2017 5.0 Pros I like Octoparse Cloud Service most. I need to update the data every day and the cloud service enables me to schedule the crawlers run daily on Octoparse cloud servers automatically without having to keep my computer on. This really save me a lot of time and help me get a lot of original data online for my academic research. Besides, I do appreciate they offer great discounts for us students. It is really helpful to me. Cons Sometimes the support replied a little late. It would be better if they could reply a little earlier. Review Source GB Gert B. CEO Management Consulting Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Bad company!" February 1, 2024 2.0 We tried octoparse in the free trial version but found out that their data-extraction is illegal in the EU. So we stopped. But we had to give creditcard info before we could start. They took the money but right away and refuse to refund. So watch out with this company. It's scam and fraud and once you try to address any issue they don't react. ONE OF THE WORST EVER !!! Pros Hardly anything was good about the product and especially the company itself. It's seems like fraud!!! Cons Hard to use and slow in execution and above all illegal in the EU !!! Review Source Masita Dwi Mandini M. CTO Research Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Dont ever try the trial version " August 5, 2019 1.0 The trial version likes to create a trap for their user. They send a notification on the expired trial version on 7 days before and 2 minute before. For me is crazy to get 2 minute before notification. So if you kind a person how likes to forget the expired time of your trial version don't ever try this app, not worthty. Pros They have some template on crawling specific website Cons I try to crawl some literature databased from google scholar using their template, but it doesn't work well since google detected it as a robot. So totally crawl all the data was imposible, the system will stopped before finished the entired data crawling. Review Source CT Cindy T. Student Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A great free web scraper to extract data online within seconds" August 17, 2017 5.0 Pros I use Octoparse to extract the comments on Twitter for my academic research. It did really help as you just need to make a simple crawler to extract the data online automatically. Though at first I didn't have any idea on how to make a crawler, I finally made it with the help of the detailed tutorials and support team. The free version is quite powerful since it could scrape almost every website. But I need the CLOUD SERVICE to schedule the tasks to run every day to get the updated data. That's why I choose the premium plan. With the great discounts offered specially for academic research, it's not a problem to afford that for us students. Cons It couldn't solve the Captcha problem on cloud service and I had to do that in local machine if I want to extract such kind of websites. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Research Strategist + Writer Used the software for: ### "Seems great; too bad it's Windows-only" April 1, 2018 3.0 Pros Octoparse has a great feature set and attractive pricing. Among scraping software, it's a strong contender for one of the most user-friendly and feature-rich. Cons Too bad it's only an option if you're on Windows. Agencies and other environments that tend to be Mac shops won't be able to consider it. Review Source Response from Octopus Data April 4, 2018 Thanks for supporting Octoparse! Geoffrey L. Nomad Market Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "reduce repetitive work" October 11, 2018 5.0 good value Pros I was manually going through the linkedin sales navigator to check on changes to a saved search I had done. After setting up Octoparse, it grabs all the changes to my saved search and saves them into a google sheet that eliminates a lot of clicks to get to the same information. I also saved a lot of time. Cons It's a point-and-click software, which takes a while. It was worth it after automating my previously manual process. Review Source BL Bepa L. Sales manager Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Data extraction tool!" August 11, 2017 5.0 Pros Cost . I'm a Sales manager and have to deal with massive profiles of customer. Every info was unstructured data and was hard to read through, which caused much headache. That was a luck a friend introduced Octoparse to me, a great web scraping tool, it boosted much of my work efficiency, and my team succeeding in exceeding sales target. Great software! Great Help! Cons Customer support Review Source SC Stephanie C. Secretary Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helpful Extraction Tool!" July 28, 2017 5.0 Pros Point-and-Click interface. this feature makes me feel arranged while I'm using Octoparse, it's clear to see which step I am in, and what step should I do next. Cons Customer Support. the customer supports dont reply instantly, sometimes it takes hours to reply my e-mails. Review Source SP Sarah P. Customer Success Representative Consumer Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for data scraping" June 30, 2020 5.0 Octoparse lets our company free up time to do other projects. We are able to set up data projects in Octoparse and it goes right to work doing what we could never do in the amount of time it takes. We love using Octoaparse for our data scraping needs. Pros There are a lot ways to scrape data from several different sites. Ocotparse also offers lots of tutorials if you are unsure of how to scrape data from certain sites. Cons There are some features that might be hard to understand how to use if you do not have a basic understanding of coding. Ocotparse does provide many how to guides to help those that do not have a good background in coding. Review Source Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.