#Review octoparse how to#
#Review octoparse upgrade#

You can run your extraction project either on your local machines (Local Extraction) or in the cloud (Cloud Extraction). Its remarkable features such as filling out forms, entering a search term into the textbox, etc., make extracting web data an easy process. Octoparse simulates human operation to interact with web pages. To export the data, there are variousВ data formats of your choice like CSV, EXCEL, HTML, TXT, and databases (MySQL, SQL Server, and OracleВ via API). It works well for both static and dynamic websites, includingВ those web pages using Ajax. For most scraping tasks, no coding is needed. Both experienced and inexperienced users would find it easy to bulk extract information from websites with it. Input the expression (+)()ДЁ.OctoparseВ is a modern visual web data extraction software.Add a step of Replace with Regular Expression.Input ' rating bubble_' to Start with and input ' '' in End with.> Clean data -> Add Step -> Match with Regular Expression Make sure to click on Extract the outer HTML of the selected element when extracting data (for the 3 fields we mentioned above).To learn more about clean data, please click here. So we can use Clean Data to solve this problem. Data cleaning - to reformat the fieldsДЇor the 'Rating', 'Date of Stay' and 'Review time' fields, you might find that modifying the Xpath can not get the exact data you want. Copy and paste the Xpath we provided to each fieldД§.Review content: Switch Horizontal view to Vertical View You can just copy and paste to customize XPath.ДЄddress: of reviews: name: 'header_link')] We have prepared fields Xpath down below. Customize the data field by modifying XPath вЂ“ to improve the accuracy of data fieldsДЄs we have mentioned, the auto-generated XPath does not always work, we need to modify the XPath of the fields to make the scraping more precise. Set up AJAX (To know more about AJAX, please click here)Д¦.Scroll down to click the Next button and choose Loop click next page.Create pagination - to scrape all the reviews from multiple pages Select the data (Username and Comment) and click Extract the text of the selected link separatelyДҐ.Scroll down the page, select the first 2 reviews and click Extract the text of the selected elements.Click on the data you need and click Extract the text of the selected element respectively.We can scrape the hotel information along with the reviews. You may want to know which hotel these reviews are for. If Octoparse does not open the first hotel page after we save the XPath, we can click on another action (for example, the Extract Data action), then click Click URLs in the list to open the hotel page. Click Click Item and input the XPath: prominent')].(To know more about what is XPath, please check here) The auto-generated action Click URLs in the list cannot always click the title URL, so we need to modify the XPath of this action. Select Click on link(s) to scrape the linked page(s).Uncheck the option of Add a page scroll.Go to Data preview to see if you're okay with the current data output.Click Auto-detect web page data and wait for the detection to complete.Enter the URL to the home page and click Start.'Go to Web Page' - open the targeted web page Start extraction - to run the task and get the dataДЎ. Data cleaning - to reformat data fieldsДЁ. Customize the data field by modifying XPath вЂ“ to improve the accuracy of certain data fieldsД§. Create pagination - to scrape all reviews from multiple pagesД¦. Create a 'Loop Item' - to scrape review informationДҐ. Auto-detect the web page - to create a workflowД¤. Go to Web Page - to open the target web pageДў. Here are the main steps in this tutorial: ДЎ. To follow through, you may want to use the URL in this tutorial: We will scrape the hotel's basic information, the reviewers' names, and the comments from customers.

#Review octoparse how to#

In this tutorial, we are going to introduce how to scrape customer review data from Tripadvisor.

#Review octoparse upgrade#

If you are running an older version of Octoparse, we strongly recommend you upgrade because it is faster, easier and more robust! Download and upgrade here if you haven't already done so! You are browsing a tutorial guide for the latest Octoparse version.