Octoparse: guides & tutorials

Octoparse is a solid no-code scraper. But if you're hitting its limits—Windows-only builder, JavaScript ceiling, API locked behind Professional tier, or $75/month pricing for light use—you have options. This guide compares seven alternatives, ranked by what matters: free tier, JavaScript support, pricing, and where each tool actually shines.

Every major scraping tool — Apify, Octoparse, and Crawlee — supports direct export to CSV, Excel, and Google Sheets. This guide shows the fastest path for each tool.

If Octoparse's price tag, Windows-only builder, or JavaScript ceiling is a mismatch, the tools below split the problem differently. Try Apify when you need APIs and code paths; Octoparse if pure no-code still fits. We stack them by free tier, JS handling, pricing, and where each shines.

Octoparse's free tier caps you at 2 local tasks, 10,000 records per export, and no cloud—fine for learning the product, not for production workloads. Try Octoparse free or Apify's $5 free credits. Below: hard limits, what still works on $0, and when paying unlocks cloud, scheduling, and rotation.

Octoparse pricing runs from free (2 local tasks) to Enterprise (custom). The jump from Standard ($75/mo) to Professional ($209/mo) is about concurrent cloud slots and API access. Try Octoparse or Apify for developer-focused pricing.

Octoparse is visual, no-code scraping: you point at fields, click, and extract—without writing JavaScript or Python in the builder. Try Octoparse free or Apify for developer workflows. We rate ease of use, data quality, scheduling, pricing, and support, then name the teams that should (and shouldn't) pick it.

You can extract business names, phone numbers, addresses, ratings, and more from Google Maps using Octoparse's visual scraper. Try Octoparse or Apify's Google Maps Scraper for a developer-ready alternative. This guide covers setup, field selection, pagination, and anti-block tactics.

This tutorial walks you through building your first Octoparse scraper from scratch. No code. Get Octoparse free or try Apify if you prefer developer tooling. By the end, you'll have a working scraper that extracts data and exports to CSV.

Octoparse sells no-code, visual scraping to business users; Apify is a developer platform—30,000+ Actors, APIs, webhooks, and LLM hooks out of the box. Try Octoparse or Try Apify. Here's how to pick based on team skills, integrations, and budget.

Octoparse and ParseHub are the two most widely used visual/no-code web scraping desktop apps. Both let non-developers extract web data by pointing and clicking — no code required.

They differ significantly in interface design, JavaScript handling, cloud infrastructure, and pricing.