Is Octoparse any good?

What are the advantages of Octoparse?

Octoparse is a universal download manager.

Unlike other software, it works on any platform, including Windows, Mac and Linux. It allows you to download large files in a fast and efficient manner. When downloading, Octoparse will try to find the best server to connect to, thus ensuring you the fastest download speed. Once the download is complete, Octoparse will be able to queue up new downloads automatically.

What are the advantages of Free Download Manager? Free Download Manager supports all major operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux. It can download large files without the need to pre-partition them. It offers the best file compression. Unlike other software, Free Download Manager does not require you to install any additional software. To get the most out of Free Download Manager, just drag and drop your files to the file manager window. All downloaded files will be saved in the same location, keeping all files together.

Is Octoparse Chinese?

This is a question I've received at least a few times, and for which I haven't gotten a full answer.

I recently came across a piece in the New York Times by a Japanese journalist on Octoparse, a Chinese app which claims to have more than 800 million downloads. The paper article also said that the app, which promises to scan your social media profiles (Facebook, Instagram, WeChat) and let you know what your friends are up to, was spending its time in China.

This got me thinking about Octoparse's background, and the possibility that it may or may not be Chinese. It seems as though many people assume that Octoparse is Chinese because of the country of origin listed in the app's description: Beijing, China (China isn't listed as a country of origin in the Google Play store). Octoparse also has another feature which I've noticed over time. On first launch, the app lists Social media integration as one of the features. But if you go to the settings screen, the only option for social media integration is to turn on Instagram integration. There is no Twitter or Facebook option.

When asked about this in an email, Octoparse founder and CEO Chris Wang told us We started with China because it was easier. After we realized China wasn't enough we moved onto different markets like Malaysia, Thailand and Spain. Our target market is still China but it's very hard for us to target a market of more than 1 billion people.

He added, We do not have a marketing budget like many other apps. Our main source of revenue is China, and other markets are like extra revenue.

He went on, We currently have 30 million monthly active users on our application and I believe China is still 50% of our market. So now, where does that leave us? The truth is, Octoparse may be Chinese, but they've managed to become big elsewhere. Octoparse founder Chris Wang.

What is the difference between Octoparse and scrapy?

Octoparse (or web scraping) is actually a Python module on top of Web.py, designed to solve this particular problem.

Scrapy is a different solution entirely to get the data from external sites - not scraping of course, but crawling with an offical spider. We want to crawl the sites for content, but we need to be able to differentiate a click-bait web page, that will never go to a particular page, from the legitimate links that actually point us to that site. And if we find a 'real' page that was created in the past as click-bait (and later disappeared), we want to be able to keep track of all the sites that have those pages, to avoid creating duplicate links and pages.

If you want to take part in the project, check out. You'll need to log in or register your account for this particular section to have access to more options. I created Octoparse (which I mentioned above) for this exact problem - so we can avoid all the possible security problems that come from visiting these pages directly, without checking whether the site is real, and we don't need to create any new fake links, just for the sake of being more efficient. Scrapy solves a different problem - namely, how do you easily crawl many (thousands or even millions) sites at once, so you don't hit them all at once, in order to minimize the risk of overload or getting banned? Also, because Octoparse solves our problem (which is also why we don't need the spider mechanism at all - I'd consider Octoparse's approach to solving this problem a kind of "crawling" mechanism instead, since it doesn't really crawl anything - it simply tells you the URL of the real pages, like a traditional link scraper) - Octoparse doesn't need to "share" the crawling process between all the crawlers running at once. If that particular site stops working - the crawlers stop in less than one minute, and start again automatically, without affecting each other. If that site starts responding again, you will eventually just get the new real URLs through another (perhaps manual) visit.