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Extremely slow speed, this browser-based scraping never go faster than 3-4 seconds per page, in certain websites it was taking 1 minute per page. I get often projects to extract 10,000+ or even 100,000+ pages which takes few days to scrap in free plan, too much so I rather don’t use Octoparse.

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Ability to scrap websites that require user to input data, click buttons, go through pagination, infinite scrolling, etc.PAID plans are quite cheap and also do not have any limit of number of pages like import.io.FREE plan that do not have any limit of number of pages or records to be scraped.

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I started testing each one, all them being harder to use than Import.io, including Octoparse, some of them cost money but none being so expensive like Import.io, but I decided to pay more attention to Octoparse and learn how to use it, because it is a FREE software.Īfter days of learning, Octoparse allowed me to create new databases by scraping websites that require user to click buttons or enter text, which was not possible with Import.io, but I had also projects done with import.io that cannot be done with Octoparse. I was not aware that there are so many alternatives of import.io. I posted my story in Stackoverflow, someone who answered me gave me a list of 10+ do-it-yourself scraping tools. I have been able to earn some money by offering web scraping services to various customers, but not sufficient to afford the $249 / 50.000 queries plan and my customers were requesting me to scrap websites with more than 100.000 pages. I tried to sign up with a new account, but realized that they just limited free plans to 500 queries per month since 14th or 15th September.īy this way I realized how risky is to run a business based on a third-party service that change prices arbitrarily. Number of queries was going to be reset on 12th each month, but after this date I was no longer able to sign in, most likely because they suspended my cloud account too. While the account for desktop application was suspended, I was still able to use their cloud extraction, but limited to 10.000 queries per month. I continued to scrap websites with large number of queries, because had projects on TO-DO list, and on 10th September they sent me another email saying that suspended my account for continuous usage over free tier limits. I replied, but they did not replied back.

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However, at end of August 2016 they send me an email saying that I am exceeding the limits of free plan, having over 90.000 queries last 30 days, and gave me 2 options: to reduce number of queries to maximum 10.000 per month, or to upgrade to a paid plan, they also said that there are many “zombie accounts” like mine and if I don’t reply, they will suspend my account.

#Octoparse user not activated for free#

They assured me via email that people who signed up prior to March 2016 can still use their software for free without limits. In April 2016 Import.io went through a major update, removing desktop application for new sign ups and introduced cloud extraction, with free plans limited at 10.000 queries per month, as well as paid plans starting from $249 per month for 50.000 queries per month. Import.io was a free software with no limits, supported by people hiring their staff to do scraping in their place. I was imputing a list of URL and extract them in bulk, at rate of 1 page per second, but slowing down over time, so was better to run in batches taking max 5-10 hours. It changed my life, an easy to use do-it-yourself tool, allowing me to quickly create new databases by scraping data from other websites, for my personal research, which would take many hours copying data manually (do note that copying other websites can bring you into legal issues, especially if you use their data commercially, such as creating your own website). In August 2015 I did several Google searches related to scraping and found Import.io. I was not aware of possibility to do scraping. Original databases with no equivalent on internet! Since childhood I created numerous databases manually, for example a database of car models and their production years, by browsing Wikipedia for each car model and writing them into my databases. I love doing research and compiling data in databases.

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