Close a pop-up
Updated over a week ago

“I love pop-up ads,” said nobody…ever. Pop-ups have to be one of the most universally hated parts of online marketing. They're annoying, interruptive, and distracting. For us web scrapers, an unexpected pop-up slows down the page loading and blocks the page elements we want to extract. So how can we close the pop-up when building the task?

There are actually two ways to cope with pop-ups in Octoparse. For demonstration purposes, we'll use the WenCNFT website as an example. Check the URL below: https://www.wencnft.com/calendar

Create a new task in Octoparse using the sample URL. We can notice that a website disclaimer pops up and blocks the entire webpage.


1. Close the pop-up manually

Our first option is to close the pop-up manually. Toggle on Octoparse's browse mode and click the purple cross to close the pop-up. Remember to toggle off the browse mode before moving on to the next step.

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2. Use Click Items

The second option is to add click items in our workflow to tell Octoparse to close the pop-up for us. Click on the close cross in the top right of the pop-up first and select Click element from the Tips panel. Set an AJAX timeout for this action.

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Either way, we will close the pop-up. You can go on to edit your task.


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