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Collecting Data from Websites without Coding Skills
Ansel Barrett Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes. With Octoparse you can extract any websites as you wish without using a single line of code.
2022-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Price Comparison Software | What it is and why use it?
Abigail Jones Price comparison software is essential for all e-commerce retailers but most of them are too expensive for small retailers. Octoparse web scraping is a free price comparison software, one that you can't miss.
2022-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Octoparse 8.5: Empowering Local Scraping and More
Abigail Jones Octoparse now makes web scraping on local devices faster and easier. Learn what's new about Octoparse 8.5 and how it improves your efficiency.
2022-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 · 6 min read
What is Web Harvesting?
Ansel Barrett Web harvesting, also known as web scraping, is the process of data collection from target web pages on the Internet by specialized programs or software. Data is further exported to the database of your choice. Web Harvesting still mainly focus on web content pages that are based on HTML / XML. You may need to grasp some technical terms like XQuery and RegEx (Regular Expression) that can help you screen the content of text / XML documents and thus to collect the exact information.
2022-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 · 2 min read
Tips to Master Data Extraction in 2026
Ansel Barrett Data Extraction is a process of scraping unstructured web data from web pages into analyzable formats. But how to do data extraction efficiently has been haunting us. In this article, we will share some tips to master data extraction.
2022-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read
Top 8 Technology Trends You Should Know
Ansel Barrett Top 8 Technology trends you must learn about: Artificial Intelligence(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud & Virtualization, Connectivity, Ubiquitous Video, Computer vision, Robots and drones and Blockchain
2022-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
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
What You Should Know about Website Rippers?
Ansel Barrett A website ripper is a tool that lets you save the whole websites/multiple web pages/single page for offline usage. Once downloaded you could then browse through the whole site whenever you wanted, even without an internet connection.
2021-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 · 1 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