One Platform, Start to Finish
Use a ready-made scraper or set one up yourself by pointing and clicking, then run it in the cloud and export analysis-ready data. No code at any step.
See documentationFor students and universities
Octoparse for universities
We support students, teachers, and researchers who use web data in their academic projects, with an educational discount of up to 50% on any Octoparse plan.
0+Students and researchersUse Octoparse every year in academic projects.
0+Ready-to-use templatesExtract data from popular sites without writing code.
90%Less collection timeCompared to copying and pasting data manually.
24/7Support and resourcesTutorials and help for your research.
What can Octoparse do for your educational project?
Students in these disciplines already use Octoparse to turn the web into research data.
E-commerceData ScienceMarketing and LeadsArtificial IntelligenceJournalism and MediaApplied StatisticsSocial Media and Public OpinionSentiment Analysis on X/TwitterQuantitative EconomicsDigital SociologyTourism and GeolocationReal Estate and Urban StudiesInternational RelationsBusiness AdministrationHuman ResourcesComputational Linguistics
Features designed to accelerate your research
A web data platform that turns websites into clean, structured data — so you spend your time on analysis, not collection.
Visual Editor
Design your extraction workflow by dragging and dropping elements, without writing a single line of code.
See documentationAI Auto-Detect
Paste a URL and Octoparse reads the page, drafts the workflow, and identifies the data fields for you.
See documentationTemplates Gallery
Run a ready-made scraper maintained by the Octoparse team: set a few parameters and extract data with a single click.
See more templatesFile Download
Extract and download images, documents, videos, and other files directly from the web.
See documentationCloud & Boost Modes
Octoparse Cloud takes a job from a single test run to production volume with concurrent runs, task splitting, and boost modes.
See documentationWho can apply?
The educational discount is designed for the whole academic community.
Students
Enrolled in an accredited educational institution, with a valid institutional email or student ID.
Teachers
Who use Octoparse for teaching purposes or to support their students' work.
Researchers
Who need web data for a research project, academic publication, or thesis.
How much can you save?
Your discount level depends on how you plan to use Octoparse.
Standard discount
For students, teachers, and researchers
- 20% off monthly plans
- 25% off quarterly plans
- 35% off annual plans
If you feature Octoparse in your academic work
- 50% off any Octoparse plan
- Valid when you mention or use Octoparse in a paper, research project, or thesis
The educational discount can only be requested once per person.
How to request your discount
The application process is simple and reviewed manually by our team.
01
Complete the form
Tell us who you are, your university, and how you'll use Octoparse in your academic project.
02
Attach your verification
Provide your student ID, teacher certificate, or institutional email to confirm your academic profile.
03
Get your discount
Our team reviews your request and confirms the discount coupon for you to apply at checkout.
Enjoy your discount now
Fill out the form and hit submit: we'll get in touch by email to continue with your request.
Collaboration case studies
We work with universities around the world to bring web scraping to teaching and research.
Agri-food research
Octoparse and Purdue University
Purdue University's Center for Food Demand and Sustainability Analysis (CFDAS) uses Octoparse to monitor 20 online supermarket chains daily across nearly 342 zip codes, building a price observatory that helps consumers, farmers, and agri-food policymakers make better decisions.
Collaboration highlights
Daily price monitoring
20 supermarket chains
Real-time data transfer
Support for agri-food research
2.3M+products monitored every day
Frequently asked questions
Ready to get started?
Request your educational discount and start extracting the data you need for your academic project.