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Can I extract data on a schedule?

Tuesday, December 03, 2019

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Yes. Task scheduling is available for tasks running in the Cloud (for premium plans

). With Octoparse, you can get updated data by running your task on a pre-defined schedule, such as every 1-min, every 5-min or every Wednesday of the week, etc.

To set a schedule for any task,

1. Click "Start Extraction" on the upper left-hand side

2. Click "Set a Schedule"

3. Define the schedule

Follow the step-by-step instructions in this tutorial to set up a schedule.

Note:

1. The next scheduled task will only be executed after the current one gets completed or it will be skipped.

2. Once you've finished setting up a task schedule, you can further save the setting/configuration for future use.

task scheduling

3. Currently, there’s no task scheduling feature for local extraction.

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