What's new in Octoparse 8.6.8
Feb 1, 2024
- Auto-exports to Google Sheets no longer require Octoparse to stay open
- Added the ability to share custom tasks via links
- Added the ability to convert relative time into absolute date formats
- Added the ability to use proxy IPs when configuring tasks
- Added reCAPTCHA v3 solving capability
- Added the ability to set up auto-exports in bulk
- Added the option to change support language preferences in user center
- Added task settings for template tasks
- Added forward/back page navigation shortcut in Browse Mode
- Add the option to set up auto logins with cookies
- Added the option to maximize browser automatically for local task runs
New in Octoparse 8.6.7 (Dec 6, 2023)
- Provides important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.
New in Octoparse 8.6.6 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Provides important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.
New in Octoparse 8.6.5 (Sep 18, 2023)
- What’s New:
- Added German and French localizations for the app
- Added the ability to register/login with a Microsoft account
- Added a “Cookie login” shortcut on the browser URL bar to set up website login cookies
- Added the ability to import .otd files via drag-and-drop and double click
- Added the ability to double click .otd files to launch Octoparse
- Added the ability to set up automatic export for template tasks
- Added the ability to search task groups with keywords
- Updated Autodetect algorithm to improve detection accuracy on top scraped websites
- Bug fixes:
- Addressed some minor bugs from the previous version
New in Octoparse 8.6.4 (Jul 13, 2023)
- Addressed some minor bugs from the previous version.
New in Octoparse 8.6.2 (May 24, 2023)
- Added the ability to export data to a local folder automatically (available for premium users)
- Added support for XML file format during export in addition to Excel/CSV/HTML/JSON
- Added the ability to automatically export cloud data to databases including SQL, MySql, and Google Sheets
- Added the ability to put a scheduled local task in the queue when it exceeds the concurrency limit
- Added an in-app message inbox so you don’t miss out on promotional activities
- Added two new quick actions in the data preview section to “Quick add” a data field or “Enter subpage”.
- Added a new trigger condition called “when a data field is blank”.
- Added batch action for automatic local file export
- Added multi-language switch support for English, Japanese, and Spanish
- Updated database auto-export scheduler to support batch actions and list filters
- Redesigned UI around custom task setup process
- Bug fixes:
- Addressed some minor bugs from the previous version.
New in Octoparse 8.4.2 Beta (Dec 9, 2021)
- Updates:
- Improved core browser performance for local runs and task edit mode with much better stability and compatibility.
- Updated "Data Preview" session with newly added vertical view for data fields and different page layers to view data fields.
- Updated task edit settings, workflow and data preview interface
- Updated database auto-export tool to help better manage export schedules with filters and sorts.
- Capture data dynamically as the page scrolls if data is not being extracted properly for infinitive-scrolling websites, such as Twitter.
- New Features:
- Allows scrolling the webpage partially within a specific area for websites with several scroll bars.
- Allows timestamp format for datetime conversion
- Allows custom user agents(UA) for browser options
- Back up local data to the Cloud (for Professional users and above)
- Added Zapier integration to transfer cloud data to a third-party app such as Google Sheets, Dropbox, etc.
- Bug Fixes:
- Some common bugs are fixed. Issues with not loading, white pages, crashing have been minimized.
New in Octoparse 8.1.24 (Oct 12, 2021)
- Better experience: Brand new software design with more stable and more smooth data scraping experience. The problem of stuck and slow will be improved.
- Improved website compatibility: Core rendering browser has been updated from Firefox to Chrome with much better compatibility.
- Faster extraction speed: Significant improvement over the speed of local runs.
- More concise UI interaction: The interface is more concise and the workflow logic is more clear than before.
New in Octoparse 8.2.4 Beta (May 13, 2021)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the workflow display issue
- Fix the button display issue of "Run Stopped" pop-up
New in Octoparse 8.1.24 Beta (Sep 14, 2020)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the issue of switching IP proxies
- Fix the issue of the not refreshing page after switching browser
- Fix the issue of exit loop
- Fix the issue of auto export to database
- Fix the issue of some Iframe webpages
- Fix the issue of entering text for text box during extraction
- Fix the issue of loop item display
New in Octoparse 8.1.10 Beta (Apr 15, 2020)
- Updates:
- Better experience: Brand-new software design with more stable and more smooth data scraping experience. The problem of stuck and slow will be improved.
- Improved website compatibility: Core rendering browser has been updated from Firefox to Chrome with much better compatibility.
- Faster extraction speed: Significant improvement over the speed of local runs.
- More concise UI interaction: The interface is more concise and the workflow logic is more clear than before.
- Smart auto-detection is launched to make it even easier to build a crawler.
- Notes:
- You can install both version 8.1 and 7 on your device.
- Support Windows 7 and above (only supports x64 bit systems). If you're using Windows XP or x32 bit system, please download version 7.3.0.
- Cloud servers are still under version 7. It is possible that some tasks configured in version 8.1 cannot run normally in the Cloud.
New in Octoparse 7.2.6 (Jun 10, 2019)
- Bug Fixes:
- Some existed bugs have been resolved
New in Octoparse 7.2.4 (May 30, 2019)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the bug of the default setting for "AJAX Timeout" when automatically detecting AJAX
- Fix the bug when exporting data to Oracle database
New in Octoparse 7.2.2 (May 16, 2019)
- Updates:
- Performance optimization
- Improve the fault-tolerance and reliability
- The software has been tested by 360 anti-virus software, please feel free to use
New in Octoparse 7.1.2 (Dec 3, 2018)
- Updates:
- Optimized Dashboard loading performance
New in Octoparse 6.4.1 (Mar 8, 2017)
- UPDATES:
- Optimized the Local Extraction Export performance. Data will not be deleted if exported abnormally.
- Added the feature to batch modify the Task Category.
- Added Schedule Task feature in Start Interface. Users can apply the saved scheduled settings to batch tasks.
- Authority is not necessary anymore when data needs to be exported to Mysql.
- Improve Local Extraction Speed.
- Memory usage is reduced.
- Added Reminders of how to speed up data extraction before running the tasks.
- Added Extraction Failure Report on Local Extraction.
- Greatly improved the quality of the extracted data and decrease the quantity of missing data.
- Greatly improved the client performance and speed up the extraction.
- Added the function to load the data page when viewing extracted data.
- Pagination threshold can be set with a higher value in Wizard Mode
- Added the feature -- Refresh to update tasks and task groups by right-click.
- BUG FIXES:
- Some existed bugs have been resolved.
- Resolve the bug of redundant and duplicated data generated when exporting data
- if multiple pages of extracted data are compacted into one page.
- Resolve the bug of invalid Default Value Settings.
New in Octoparse 6.2 (Sep 13, 2016)
- Added a brand new feature -- Smart Mode to get data by just pasting in a URL.
- Added a brand new feature -- Ad Blocking to optimized the loading time of web page.
- Optimized the Export to Excel performance and resolved unexpected export errors.
- Optimized the Export to Database performance and resolved unexpected export errors.
- Improved the Incremental Extraction feature and enabled URL parameter option.
New in Octoparse 6.0 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Added four types of extraction configuration to simplify the data extraction process.
- Added the 'Tutorial Guidance' option for extraction configuration.
- Added the option to decide the order of running tasks in Cloud Extraction.
- Scheduled Cloud Extraction.
- Added the 'View all' option and 'View unexported data' option in the 'Cloud: Completed' to view all the data run in cloud extraction. Users can export all the unexported data.
- Tasks can be dragged to different categories.
- Added the 'Export to Oracle database' feature.
New in Octoparse 5.1 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Added the feature to extract missing data. (only for certain types of processes). Cloud data extraction support the feature of auto-extracting missing data to improve the quality of data extracted.
- Added the 'Enable Incremental extraction' option in the 'Extraction Options' step to extract new data when extracting data.
- Added the 'Export to Oracle database' feature.
New in Octoparse 4.0 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Greatly improved the data export feature and can export large amounts of data.
- Added the feature to imitate the other devices such as smartphones or tablets to grab data from more web pages with other formats.
- Added the 'Use a proxy IP' feature in the 'Local Extraction' option and supported setting a number of proxy IPs.
- Added the feature to import or export volume data.
- Added the feature to intelligently recognize field names. Octoparse can automatically identify the field names and automatic naming.
New in Octoparse 3.0 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Upgraded the kernel, thus to increase the extraction speed significantly and reduce resource consumption.
- Added the action to extract data by looping over the list of links in the web page. Extract all the links and their corresponding details by opening these links. Then combine the extracted data from these two sections (the Links and the Details) in data table by the order of links.
- Added the 'Local extraction' option. Users can disable image loading to increase the extraction speed and reduce network traffic.
- Optimized the algorithm for 'Cycle Click' action and for 'Extract Data' in a loop action . The system can intelligently identify and specify the parameters to simplify the configuration process.
- The anchor can automatically relocated after clicking a hyperlink on a web page.
New in Octoparse 2.0 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Added the 'Export to Database' feature.
- Added the 'Loop Text' feature to use current loop to enter text.
- Added the 'Wait before execution' option and 'Or wait until specific element appears' option.
- Added the 'End loop' action.
- Added the 'Cloud :Waiting' option in 'Task Status'.
New in Octoparse 1.0 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Improved the compatibility by identifying pages automatically.
- Improved the configuration process by stopping the page jump when clicking on some elements in web page.
- Improved data security for users.