Octoparse Web Scraping Blog
Articles about web scraping, data extraction, web scraping tools, data analysis, big data, and related topics.

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

What Are The Best Web Scraping APIs for Real Time Data
This guide explains what real-time web scraping actually involves, why it matters in specific industries, and what are the best scraping APIs to approach the problem.
2025-12-15T17:02:42+00:00 · 7 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

Web Scraping 101: 10 Myths That Everyone Should Know
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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