Ansel Barrett
Ansel works as a contributing author at Octoparse, where he leverages his interest in coding, machine learning, and other AI technologies to provide valuable insights into web scraping.
190 posts

Legal Considerations You Should Know While Scraping Amazon
Is it legal to scrape data from Amazon? You may have this question when you're going to collect some data. This post discusses the legacy, anti-scraping problems, and tips to avoid getting blocked.
2025-08-20T15:09:10+00:00 · 6 min read

How to Get Email Addresses in Bulk for Business Leads
Email marketing is one of the most effective strategies to reach potential customers. Let's check out how to build a scraper to extract email addresses for lead generation!
2025-08-13T16:44:17+00:00 · 6 min read

Top 10 Sitemap Crawlers You Should Know in 2025
On this page, you can learn the 10 best sitemap crawlers and the easy tool to scrape contents from any website without coding. Read the article to improve your site traffic.
2025-08-12T14:36:29+00:00 · 7 min read

Top 7 Web Mining Tools to Extract Data from Any Website
Web data mining use techniques to identify patterns from large data sets. Click to compare top web mining tools including Octoparse, R, Oracle, and more for your data mining needs.
2025-08-05T18:26:53+00:00 · 5 min read

How to Extract Text From an HTML File Within Seconds
How to extract texts from html file? There is a automated way of gathering them. Let's see how it can be done.
2025-07-30T17:09:36+00:00 · 4 min read

How to Crawl Data from a Website
Discover 3 top methods to crawl data from the web—via APIs, custom crawlers, or even free scraping tools. Compare their pros, cons, and use cases.
2025-07-25T15:24:48+00:00 · 6 min read

11 FREE Web Scrapers That You Cannot Miss
Feeling difficult to find a real free web scraping tool? Don't worry, this post lists the 11 best and free web scrapers based on all systems. Just read the list and choose the most suitable one according to your needs.
2025-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 · 7 min read

11 Best Email Scrapers for Sales Prospecting in 2025
Discover the 11 best email scrapers for sales prospecting in 2025—ranging from free online tools to powerful desktop software—to find leads in just a few clicks.
2025-07-17T18:20:46+00:00 · 7 min read

How Do Proxies Prevent IP Bans in Web Scraping
Learn how proxies prevent IP bans in web scraping and how Octoparse combines smart proxy integration to help you scrape at scale —no coding required.
2025-07-10T17:17:57+00:00 · 8 min read

Top 7 Web Scraping Extensions for Chrome in 2025
Want to find an easy-to-use web scraper for Chrome browser? Read this article to learn the top 6 web scraping extensions and the no-coding web scraping tool for Windows/Mac with online preset templates.
2025-06-04T15:59:52+00:00 · 6 min read

3 Easy Methods to Build a Web Crawler for Beginners
If you have no ideas on how to make a web crawler to extract data, this article will give you 3 easy methods with a step-by-step guide. Both coding and no-coding ways are included.
2025-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 7 min read

How to Scrape Websites Using Google Sheets Effortless
In this article, you can learn the details on how to use Google Sheets for web scraping, and the best alternative to get any website data easily without coding.
2025-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 10 min read