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Articles about web scraping, data extraction, web scraping tools, data analysis, big data, and related topics.

How To Collect Google Ads Data

avatarAnsel 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.
2025-11-26T15:09:56+00:00 · 5 min read

What Is Web Scraping – Basics & Practical Uses

avatarAbigail 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

avatarAnsel 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

avatarAbigail 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

Export YouTube Comments With 3 Quick Methods

avatarAnsel 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.
2025-11-10T19:07:34+00:00 · 5 min read

Top 7 Web Scraping Extensions for Chrome in 2025

avatarAnsel 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

avatarAnsel 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

avatarAnsel 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

avatarAbigail 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

6 Ways to Scrape Images Easily from Web Pages or Websites

avatarAbigail Jones
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

Building a Reddit Image Scraper Made Easy Without Coding Skills

avatarAbigail Jones
This article will introduce particularly how to build a Reddit image scraper using Octoparse, which helps reduce your repetitive manual work of copying and pasting images.
2025-10-30T17:10:01+00:00 · 6 min read

A Step-by-step Guide to Gathering Valuable Healthcare Information Online

avatarAnsel Barrett
Learn how to ethically and responsibly scrape valuable health data from websites using Octoparse's easy-to-use web scraping software. Gathering and analyzing this web-sourced health information can improve patient outcomes, discover effective treatments and reveal at-risk patient groups.
2025-10-30T16:28:31+00:00 · 6 min read