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URL Extractor: Get URLs from Hyperlinks in A Web Page
Ansel Barrett This is a quick guide to help you pull down a list of URLs or a list of data on a web page into excel using Octoparse. Is this the URL extractor you are looking for? Let’s see.
2021-12-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read
Is It Possible to Scrape An HTML Page with JavaScript ?
Ansel Barrett After your JavaScript has been executed, whether it's something you had to wait around for to finish, or take action to make happen.
2021-12-24T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read
A Comparison among Three Editions of Octoparse
Ansel Barrett A Comparison among Three Editions of Octoparse. Octoparse has three editions: Free, Standard, Professional.
2021-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 3 min read
Brief Intro to HTML Document
Ansel Barrett Have no idea about HTML document? We will give you a specific introduction about HTML main structure and concepts.
2021-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 6 min read
XPath – Brief Introduction
Ansel Barrett Have no idea about what Xpath is? This article will introduce about it and how to use it in your web scraping works.
2021-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 · 3 min read
Competitor Price Monitoring Software — Turn Data into Business Insights
Abigail Jones Knowing what your competitors are doing is an essential part of running a successful business. In this article, I will show you how you can use web scraping technique to turn data around the web into business insights. Data is valuable only when you translate it into actionable insights.
2021-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read
How Web Crawlers Deal with List/ Table Web Page
Ansel Barrett This blog gives you the detailed steps on how to deal with a webpage table when scraping.
2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read
Link Extractor
Ansel Barrett You may look for the right tool to help get the list of links when you need to extract data from each link, instead of copying and pasting these links from websites manually. Choosing the right tool for business development and growth is very critical. There is no doubt that you need a more intelligent data extractor and There is no doubt that you need a more intelligent data extractor. There are a wide range of applications and software to meet your various needs. Here, we'd recommend you to try out Octoparse.
2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read
How to Find XPath to Locate Data in a Web Page
Ansel Barrett XPath expressions help you easily navigate XML/HTML documents. In this regard, XPath is quite handy in web scraping projects as it enables you to programmatically access HTML elements, locate data, and extract useful data.
2021-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 8 min read
How Does Octoparse Work As A Problem-Solver for Data Scraping?
Abigail Jones The Octoparse data expert will share you with some useful information about Octoparse. Let's start with how Octoparse solves the most common problems in web scraping.
2021-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Octoparse vs Import.io: which is the best for web scraping and extracting data?
Abigail Jones Here is a general comparison between Octoparse and Import.io features: Environment: Desktop app for Windows (available for MAC with a virtual machine); Web-based application, support Chrome, Firefox, Safari.
2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 7 min read
AI Web Scraping: Scrape Ecommerce Website with Auto-detection
Abigail Jones No code web scraping is possible with Octoparse now. You can scrape any website without using coding skills! Octoparse now allows you only to input the website URL, and the web scraping tool will build the crawler itself. Let's try this new feature on an e-commerce website as an example.
2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 3 min read