Where to start
Octoparse answers five questions:Built once, runs the same way every time
A scraper you build in Octoparse is a fixed set of rules. Every run opens, navigates, and extracts the site the same way, so you get the same fields each time, and nothing rereads the page with AI on each run. Reusable scrapers are built in AI Assistant or Octoparse Desktop, or come ready-made from the Template Gallery. The Open Platform runs, schedules, and retrieves them.How it works
1
Get a scraper
Pick a template, describe the data to AI Assistant, or open the site in Octoparse Desktop and click the data you want.
2
Run it
Run it on your computer or on Octoparse Cloud, once or on a schedule.
3
Export the data
Send the data to files, spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, or your own systems.
What Octoparse is good for
Octoparse is useful when data is on websites but not available in a convenient structured format, especially when getting to it takes clicks, scrolling, detail pages, or a sign-in. Common uses include:- Price monitoring
- Lead generation
- Market research
- Product and review extraction
- Directory and listing collection
- Real estate, job, ecommerce, and social data collection
- Recurring data collection for operations or reporting
What Octoparse is not
Analysis, modeling, and reporting usually happen in other tools, using the data you export from Octoparse.
Where to go next
Core concepts
Tasks, templates, routes, runs, and exports, and how they fit together.
Your Octoparse account
One account for every product, and how to sign in.
AI Assistant
Describe the data you need and get a task you can run again.
Template Gallery
Start from a ready-made scraper for a popular site.