# Page 4 | Octoparse Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - 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 4 - Reviews of Octoparse ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 106 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use SA Sheng A. Owner Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Easy to use" September 3, 2019 5.0 I love it. It does exactly what I want it to do no matter he simple or intricate it is. Pros I love how there is a workflow diagram so I can review what I am asking the software to do. It allows me to truly customize the information I want to scrape. Cons The free edition only allows for 10 scrape formulas Reason for choosing Octoparse Needed easier platform and more customizable interface. Review Source ZC Zak C. IT Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Traped" February 23, 2021 3.0 I try to crawl some literature ecom articles using their template, but it doesn't work, it kept to freeze. So crawling the data was impossible, the system will stopped before finished the entire data crawling. Pros website showing you that is a great software... Cons working themes and a notification before cut plan cost... before trial end.... Review Source JW Johnson W. Director of Operations Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Octoparse is a helpful web scraping tool!" July 27, 2017 5.0 Pros Never knew data extraction could be such an easy thing before I discovered Octoparse. It fulfills the functions I expected, I can easily obtain data I wish now. Cons I have not do any comparison with other brands, Octoparse was the first web scraping tool I ever used. If there were any con I would say it's that the websites claim users do not need to code, but users still need to learn a bunch of tutorials before use. Review Source SP Steve P. Data Scientist Defense & Space Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Intuitive scraping tool" March 2, 2017 5.0 Great tool and interface for extracting information from a a large number of sites quickly. They provide an initial tutorial to explain how to setup a task. The graphical interface makes the necessity for coding non-existent. Has a lot of functionality that I'm still exploring - ability to run from the cloud and to schedule extractions. From what I gather, the customer support is pretty strong and responsive. I would like the tutorial to include something besides the entire block content extraction. Would like to understand how to extract a particular element (e.g., phone numbers). There are some clunky features - like the different "fields" vs. "operations" vs. "tasks" aren't explained too in-depth, but with some navigating, it is easy enough to use. The free version allows you to run 10 tasks, which provides enough exposure to understand if you need the paid version - a strong indicator that they stand behind their product. Overall, a useful and appropriately priced tool with good functionality - could use some UI improvements, but gets the job done. Pros \- Good graphical interface so no coding necessary. - Has a tutorial to introduce you to their workflow. - Good functionality for the pricepoint. - Free trial period. Cons \- Could use more support on how to perform specific tasks - maybe a FAQ? Review Source LL Lier L. Websites Operator Wholesale Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Data Extraction tool!" July 26, 2017 5.0 I don't need to use most of my work time on collecting data on websites, I can use this software to do the job instead. I can have my other works done simultaneously. Pros It's easy to use, and its point-and-click interface is very easy to understand! Also, it is very functional. Great improvement on my efficiency!! Cons Price is not so pleasant, but I think it is quite worthy, since it improves much of my efficiency!!! Review Source JC John C. director Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "I am uk startup. Wish to know octoparse 2 year agos. Would be great if offer discounts for startups" March 27, 2019 5.0 Pros Easy to use unlimited page scraped per run Cons Sometime stop working if internet not work. Paid package may sort it out Review Source RS Ryan S. Food & Beverages Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Easy, useful web scraping." August 1, 2016 5.0 This has really helped our company's lead generation and allowed us to focus on much more pressing issues than building lead lists manually. Pros This is a great option for anyone looking to scrape large amount of web data, quickly. It can run in the cloud and the GUI makes scraping accessible to non-developers. Plus they have great customer support for any snags along the way. Cons Not there fault at all but some things (like knowing to delay page loading with AJAX) are mysteries to non-developers. It'd would be awesome (and I think pretty easy) if Octoparse has pre-written scripts for the most popular sites to scrape. Review Source Response from Octopus Data August 5, 2016 Thank you for using Octoparse. Your support means a lot to us, really. SC Sarah C. Used the software for: ### "An easy web scraping tool for newbie" March 2, 2017 4.0 Octoparse is very easy to start an scraping task for newbie even though you don't need anything about programming. It is really very easy and convenient to use. Also, it could extract data from almost every website, websites with infinite scrolling down like Facebook and Twitter, websites requiring loggin like LinkedIn, websites with pagination, etc. However, sometimes it is stuck and would take quite a long time to extract the data in local machine. The cloud service is much better but it still has some problems. Hope it could improve the stability to make it a more user-friendly software. Review Source UP Umberto P. Researcher Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "This is a very powerful and useful product for my research!" November 20, 2017 5.0 Pros I like how it works and its ease of usage...you don't need to be a developer for using it and it takes just few time for understanding it. Cons You just need to spend few time at the beginning for setting it and make it working properly on your machine. Review Source YT Yue T. Student Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great web scraping tool to extract data online!" August 4, 2017 5.0 Pros Octoparse is able to extract almost every website. With the powerful XPath selector, it could specify locate the items that I want to scrape. Besides, there are plenty of tutorials available online to help me quickly master Octoparse. It's really very helpful. Compared to other web scraping tools, the price is relatively acceptable. But if you think it's too expensive, you could also choose the free one, whose function is also very powerful. Cons It couldn't extract the images directly. It could only extract the URLs of the images and I have to use other application to download the images. Review Source TA Timohu A. Overseas Study Adviser Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse gave me a surprise on web scraping!" July 31, 2017 5.0 Pros Nice and clean interface, the work flow panel is simple and user friendly. Ease of Use. Cons Customer support doesn't reply instantly, though they solve problems later, it's annoying sometimes. Review Source RL Richard L. Business assistant Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very functional! Helpful for my work!!!" July 25, 2017 5.0 Pros Very functional! I can scrape almost any data on web with this software! Save massive time for me looking through customers' profiles! Cons The original price is a bit high, but recently I noticed there are some discounts on Octoparse's website. Review Source MC M C. Director Real Estate Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Used for a Property Company " March 8, 2017 5.0 I have used octoparse for a few months to gather property data in the UK. The free version worked well and was easy to use for someone with no technical experience. I liked that I could click at the information that I would like to be scraped. I found it could be a bit slow as it works on my local machine (so relying on a slow computer for me), however, the paid accounts work in the cloud which is great. It works quickly, and is great to just set up and leave. Much more cost effective than hiring somebody to do data entry work manually and can be easily set up and leave to work as it works in the cloud. It is easy to download the scraped data and opens easily in excel. I would recommend this product if you want an easy to use web scraping product and do not have too much technological expertise. Review Source LM Luca M. President Executive Office Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "The program are written in Chinese! " December 2, 2020 1.0 AWFUL- legal is investigating with Paypal to get my money back- paypal is even issues with them from every customer Pros NOTHING - YOU cant use something that is not written in your language Cons The program are written in Chinese- so when you try to use them you don't know what to press. they don't have a US version even when they tell you that they do- they will take your money but never refund it. They will string you along - its a scam Review Source JL Jason L. Programmer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse is a good web data extraction tool even for programmers!" October 20, 2017 5.0 Pros Octoparse is a good data extraction tool that could extract data from almost every website. You don't need to write the code separately yourself to scrape different website. Octoparse could handle all these problems. Besides, Octoparse Cloud Service also allows you to get the updated data automatically without keeping your machine working by scheduling your task. This does help me a lot. Cons Very few websites aren't compatible with Octoparse built-in browser. I really hope that their specialist could deal with this problem in the near future. Review Source SL Summer L. Student Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse is quite a good tool to scrape the information online." August 4, 2017 5.0 Pros Octoparse helps me to extract some heath care information online, which is quite helpful to my research. At first I was usually suck in some websites, like pagination, scrolling-down, but the tutorials help me a lot to figure out the problem and I finally succeeded in getting the data I want. Besides, I do appreciate Octoparse support team. They did help me a lot. Cons The cost is a bit expensive. But luckily, they offer great discounts to students now. And I hope the premium plan could also deal with the Captcha one day. Review Source KN K N. Used the software for: ### "The Best Scraping Software- Octoparse " March 9, 2017 5.0 I have used octoparse for a client a couple of months ago, and I LOVED IT. I loved it enough to try it again for my business. I own a small virtual data entry business, I normally have real estate clients. So with octoparse a 7 Hours Job is cut down to 2 hours!!! I Kid You Not. I would definitely recommend this company to anyone that scrapes data for a living, it will cut down on hours and make your clients happy. I cannot wait to try the PRO Version of it. Review Source NS Nick S. Customer service Used the software for: ### "Easy to use " May 11, 2016 5.0 The software can download and use for free, of course you should pay for some advanced functions if you want. But as a primary user without any knowledge of programming the basic version is completely enough. The scrape rules are easy to be set, and I can even talk to the technical support team of Octoparse and ask for help. So far so good, and I will study some other features of Octoparse. It is a actual good tool for e-commerce. Review Source Response from Octopus Data June 6, 2016 Thanks for using Octoparse. FC Felipe C. Student Used the software for: ### "Awesome software for extract data web." May 11, 2016 5.0 The pros are the ease of use, has a wide variety of choices for extraction and page navigation. Everything visible on the page can be extracted . It also has options to export the extracted data to different platforms (TXT , Excel , databases ) . Customer support is very good and solve problems immediately. Cons may be the nonexistence of developer forums, but overall the software is very very good. Review Source Response from Octopus Data May 11, 2016 Thank you for loving Octoparse!!!We love you too!!LOL TH Thapakorn H. Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very nice application" March 3, 2017 5.0 "This application is very nice. Come with easy tool to extract all data records on website. There're many tutorial cases to allow beginner easily to start working. Thank you Review Source RO Ron O. Systems Administrator Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Reasonably Easy to Use Scraping Tool" April 13, 2018 4.0 Pros I like how robust the features of this program are. It is one of the better scrapers I've used to product catalog information. Cons There is a pretty hefty learning curve for beginners. As an intermediate skilled user of scrapers myself I get what I'm looking for after a couple tries. Review Source TL Tom L. CEO Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Octoparse is a great tool!" March 4, 2017 5.0 I've been using Octoparse for about 6 months now. I must say that it has changed my attitude toward data collection. Sometimes I did those kind of activities manually which was very time consuming. So Octoparse saved me a lot of time. At first learning how to use it on pages which don't want data scraping was a little bit of hustle but I managed it on my own (I don't have any coding skills). If it wasn't for Octoparse I wouldn't do it. Pros saves a lot of time Cons you need to learn hov to use it but it is a powerful tool Review Source YK Yukshin K. Student Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Free Data Extractor" August 3, 2017 5.0 I am a postgraduate, and I got many essays and researches. All of these require mass of data, then Octoparse gave me a big hand on this. Strongly recommended! Pros Free Cons Not so easy to use Review Source CW Carl W. Human Resource Manager Used the software for: ### "Very useful but the interface is a littile bit confusing." May 11, 2016 4.0 It's a useful tool for me to scrape information for recruitemt. It worked well. But the user interface was confusing and I tried many times to figure it out. And I contacted the CS through email and got the response several days after. Review Source Response from Octopus Data May 11, 2016 We're so sorry for late reply.Thanks for using Octoparse and help us to make it better. KW Kimberly W. Sales manager Investment Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Octoparse is a great extraction product!" July 26, 2017 5.0 I collect customers profile and analyze ones willingness of buying funds. Pros It is very easy to use and you don't need to have any experience on web scraping before. No need to code, tutorials are easy to understand, that helps much for some laymen like me! Cons Nothing much, but my computer becomes laggy when I used Octoparse. The Octoparse supports said that it will get better when the next version comes out. Review Source Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.