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Octoparse templates help you collect data from supported websites without building a scraping task from scratch. Choose a template that fits your needs, read the instructions on its page, enter the required inputs, and click Run to get the collected data.

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Search for templates by website or business category.

What is a template?

Some websites are difficult to scrape because they use dynamic content loading, complex pagination, browser interactions, or anti-bot protections. Building a scraper for these sites—whether by writing code or configuring a custom Octoparse task—can be time-consuming and technically demanding. To simplify these complex scenarios, Octoparse’s web scraping experts create ready-to-use templates that let users collect data from supported websites in just a few steps. That expertise goes beyond solving technical scraping challenges. After supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, Octoparse has developed practical knowledge of how teams use web data across ecommerce, lead generation, social media analysis, news intelligence, and other industries. Octoparse customer success specialists bring those frontline insights into the template gallery. They turn recurring business questions, proven collection patterns, and useful field structures into ready-to-run workflows. Instead of defining a collection approach and dataset from scratch, users can begin with an established pattern and quickly obtain the fields that matter to their use case. Today, the templates in the official gallery are developed and maintained by Octoparse’s expert team. Octoparse plans to gradually open the template ecosystem so that more developers can contribute their expertise in the future. This contribution model is planned and is not yet part of the official gallery workflow. Users can already share tasks they have built with other Octoparse users. Task sharing allows someone else to reuse an existing collection workflow instead of rebuilding the task from scratch. A shared task remains separate from the official template gallery: it is created and maintained by the user who shares it, not by the Octoparse template team.

How a template works

A template provides the collection workflow. You confirm that it matches your requirement, provide the requested parameters, and run it to get the data.
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Choose a template

Find one that supports your target website, page type, and required data fields.
2

Enter the inputs

Follow the template instructions and provide the requested URLs, keywords, locations, or other parameters.
3

Run and review

Run the template, then check the collected result before using it at a larger scale.

Explore templates

Find and evaluate

Search by website or business need, then validate the inputs and output fields.

Use templates

Work with templates through the website, desktop app, CLI, MCP, or API.

Industries and use cases

Explore common business uses and representative templates for each industry.

Pricing and plan access

Separate plan access, template charges, run consumption, and service fees.

Custom template services

Prepare a request when the gallery does not cover your requirement.

Troubleshooting

Diagnose unexpected results and prepare a useful issue report.

Other ways to build a task

If no template matches your requirement, use Auto-detect to generate a starting workflow or the no-code builder to control fields, navigation, and page interactions yourself.