Abigail Jones
Abigail Jones has spent over 7 years as a Data Analyst in Octoparse. She loves writing and enjoys turning complex scraping projects into simple, practical tips anyone can follow.
220 posts

9 Web Scraping Challenges in 2026 You Should Know
You may see web scraping break down sometimes and meet all kinds of problems during the try. What are the reasons? Here are the main challenges you may face and tips about how to solve these problems.
2025-12-31T16:39:23+00:00 · 6 min read

Twitter Scraper: Easy Steps to Extract Data from Twitter (X.com)
Learn how to scrape Twitter data—including tweets, comments, URLs, and media—using an easy no-code Twitter scraper. Follow our step-by-step guide to build your crawler fast and effectively.
2025-12-29T11:59:43+00:00 · 6 min read

What 15,000 LYRIQ Owners Say About Driving Modes and Range
We scraped 15,000+ Reddit and YouTube comments to find out: Sport Mode ranks #6 among range factors. Here's what actually matters.
2025-12-19T11:40:22+00:00 · 6 min read

Price Scraping: How to Track Competitor Pricing Without a Data Team
Learn how to monitor competitor prices without coding or expensive data feeds. A practical guide to price scraping tools, methods, and getting started fast.
2025-12-18T10:05:42+00:00 · 6 min read

Web Scraping API Basics for Non-Developers
Learn what web scraping APIs actually do, when to use them vs. other tools, and how to build your first data extraction workflow. No coding hype, just clarity.
2025-12-17T18:19:28+00:00 · 8 min read

How to Diagnose and Fix 405 Method Not Allowed
Learn why scraping scripts trigger false 405 responses and how browser-based scraping with Octoparse helps handle JavaScript challenges, IP blocks, and retries.
2025-12-16T18:21:51+00:00 · 5 min read

Cloud Data Extraction: Scraping Data 24/7 Without Any Interruption
Cloud web scraping is a way to collect website data on remote servers so your crawlers keep running even when your computer is offline, asleep, or suddenly shuts down. It can makes your web scraping results more reliable, faster, and easier to scale
2025-12-15T17:54:43+00:00 · 6 min read

Is Web Scraping Legal and Why
Generally, web scraping public information from websites is legal This article gives six tips about how to scrape webpages properly.
2025-12-05T16:33:23+00:00 · 9 min read

What Is Web Scraping – Basics & Practical Uses
Web scraping is a way to download data from web pages. It is the automated process of extracting data from websites and converting it into structured and usable formats.
2025-11-25T17:09:00+00:00 · 15 min read

Web Crawling vs. Web Scraping
Web crawlers crawl a larger amount of pages and content. Their mission focuses on the action "search". While web scrapers can search desired information, and scrape them off and output them into a spreadsheet for later analysis.
2025-11-13T17:52:37+00:00 · 8 min read

Free Image Extractors Around the Web
By reading this article, you can learn 3 free image extractors, and the best image scraper to extract images from any web page without any coding.
2025-11-07T11:40:57+00:00 · 4 min read

6 Ways to Scrape Images Easily from Web Pages or Websites
This article introduces 6 easy ways to scrape images from websites down to your local files. As you read along, you would see how easy it is to get the image you want within a few clicks.
2025-10-31T11:52:32+00:00 · 8 min read