Octoparse Web Scraping Blog
Articles about web scraping, data extraction, web scraping tools, data analysis, big data, and related topics.
Is Web Scraping Legal and Why
Abigail Jones 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
Web Scraping 101: 10 Myths That Everyone Should Know
Ansel Barrett Have no ideas about web scraping? Read this article to learn the 10 myths about web scraping and the best tool to scrape any website without coding.
2025-12-05T16:05:38+00:00 · 6 min read
Data Scraping Explained: The Basics
Ansel Barrett Data scraping is a process that undertakes the automatic capturing of data on websites, applications, or legacy systems. But data scraping is a broad concept, it includes different branches.
2025-12-04T21:31:11+00:00 · 5 min read
Export YouTube Comments With 3 Quick Methods
Ansel Barrett Learn how to export all youtube comments with three different free methods. It won't cost you more than 10 minutes to download thousands of comments for analysis.
2025-12-04T20:24:40+00:00 · 5 min read
How To Collect Google Ads Data
Ansel Barrett Learn why teams scrape Google Ads Transparency Center data, how clean datasets power competitive insights, and what to expect from a reliable Google Ads scraper.
2025-12-04T17:50:12+00:00 · 5 min read
What Is Web Scraping – Basics & Practical Uses
Abigail Jones 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
500 Internal Server Error: What They Mean & How to Fix Them
Ansel Barrett A 500 internal server error is a server-side failure. Cloudflare's outage triggered 500 errors worldwide—here's what they mean and how to handle them.
2025-11-19T16:45:16+00:00 · 8 min read
Web Crawling vs. Web Scraping
Abigail Jones 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
Top 7 Web Scraping Extensions for Chrome in 2025
Ansel Barrett 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.
2025-11-10T11:48:18+00:00 · 6 min read
10 FREE Web Scrapers That You Cannot Miss
Ansel Barrett Feeling difficult to find a real free web scraping tool? Don't worry, this post lists the 10 best and free web scrapers based on all systems. Just read the list and choose the most suitable one according to your needs.
2025-11-10T10:50:40+00:00 · 7 min read
Learn Everything About List Crawling In 5 Minutes
Ansel Barrett This guide helps you master list crawling—knowing what sites are best suited, how to check crawlability, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
2025-11-09T10:10:54+00:00 · 5 min read
Free Image Extractors Around the Web
Abigail Jones 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
