> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.octoparse.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Templates

> Learn the basics of Octoparse templates and how they help you collect data from supported websites without building a task from scratch.

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.

<Card title="Browse the template gallery" href="https://www.octoparse.com/template">
  Search for templates by website or business category.
</Card>

## 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.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose a template">
    Find one that supports your target website, page type, and required data fields.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter the inputs">
    Follow the template instructions and provide the requested URLs, keywords, locations, or other parameters.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run and review">
    Run the template, then check the collected result before using it at a larger scale.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Explore templates

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Find and evaluate" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/find-and-evaluate">
    Search by website or business need, then validate the inputs and output fields.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use templates" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/use-across-interfaces">
    Work with templates through the website, desktop app, CLI, MCP, or API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Industries and use cases" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/industries-and-use-cases">
    Explore common business uses and representative templates for each industry.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Pricing and plan access" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/pricing-and-plan-access">
    Separate plan access, template charges, run consumption, and service fees.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Custom template services" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/custom-services">
    Prepare a request when the gallery does not cover your requirement.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" href="/docs/en/platform/templates/troubleshooting">
    Diagnose unexpected results and prepare a useful issue report.
  </Card>
</Columns>

## Other ways to build a task

If no template matches your requirement, use [Auto-detect](/docs/en/platform/auto-detect) to generate a starting workflow or the [no-code builder](/docs/en/platform/no-code-builder) to control fields, navigation, and page interactions yourself.