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When a ready-made template fits your request, AI Assistant recommends it before any other route. Templates are scrapers that Octoparse builds and maintains for popular sites, so you only fill in a few parameters, such as keywords or URLs, and run them.

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When AI Assistant recommends a template

AI Assistant searches the Template Gallery for templates that match the site and the data you described. Matching templates appear as cards in the chat. Templates cover the most popular sites and the most common data. You can’t run a template inside the chat. Each card takes you to where you set it up and run it:
  • Run in cloud: opens the template in a new tab. Fill in the parameters and run it on Octoparse Cloud.
  • Open in Desktop: opens the template in Octoparse Desktop. If Desktop isn’t installed, AI Assistant offers a download link.
  • Select the card itself to see the template’s page, with its fields and sample data.
The chat isn’t kept after you leave it, so open the template before you go. See Chats and tasks. A card shows the buttons that match where the template can run: on Octoparse Cloud, in Octoparse Desktop, or both. Some templates charge per result. See Template pricing.

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If a template doesn’t fit or doesn’t work

  • Need something a template doesn’t cover? Select Request a custom template. It opens a chat with our support team, with your request already filled in.
  • A template doesn’t run well, or the data isn’t what you expected? See Troubleshoot templates. If that doesn’t help, contact support: we can fix the template or customize it for you.
  • Want to build your own? Ask AI Assistant to use Browser Use, Cloud Agent, or Auto-detect, or pick one in the mode selector when you start a new chat. You can also build the task from scratch in Octoparse Desktop.

Templates overview

How templates work and how to run them.

Template Gallery

Browse all templates.