Octoparse

The new auto-detect feature is quite cool. It can scan most of the URLs I need to scrape, and then suggest some options for crawler set-up. This is quite helpful, even though the results are not perfect, but it helps a lot.

It really took me some time in learning the essence of the software. I hope they can provide more interactive tutorials for users to understand. Also, the advanced skills like XPath and RegEx are a bit difficult for me to learn. But thanks for their support team, they always help me revise xpath for many fields.

A good tool for people who need to deal with a great amount of data into formatted output like Excel.

Great products and services at the lowest price. I have tried the bulk of the web scrapers however NONE of those can be compared with Octoparse.

I need some more advanced task templates to make web scraping much easier. Sometimes it is kind of frustrating to set up the workflow for some complicated websites.

Before using Octoparse, I have repeated the steps of copy and paste from websites for years. It has totally changed the way to accomplish my job. I LOVE IT.