Sites that are not shops
Directories, listings, news, reviews, tables of any kind: Octoparse's workflows are built for whatever a page holds.
An Octoparse alternative
for when the job is a shop's products.
Octoparse is a desktop scraping app for Windows and Mac: you build a task, or let auto-detect suggest one, and run it on your computer or in Octoparse's cloud. When all you need is the products of a few shop pages, with prices and photos, that is a lot of setup. Web Product Scraper opens beside the shop in Chrome's side panel and shows its products as a table at once. Below is where each tool is the better choice.
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Is there a free Octoparse alternative that runs in Chrome?
Octoparse is installed as a desktop app; its Chrome Mode drives the Chrome on your computer from that app, but it is not an extension you add from the Chrome Web Store. Web Product Scraper is one. It has no paid plan, reads shop category, search and product pages without a task to design, and saves each product's photos in a folder of their own. For other kinds of website, or runs in the cloud with your computer off, Octoparse is the stronger tool.
Octoparse and Web Product Scraper side by side
From Octoparse's own pricing and download pages, linked under Sources below; prices and free-plan limits re-checked on 4 November 2026.
| Web Product Scraper | Octoparse | |
|---|---|---|
| How you get it | Added to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store | Downloaded app for Windows 10 (64-bit) or later, or for Mac |
| Before the first export | Open the shop page; its products appear as a table | Auto-detect the page or build a task workflow |
| Price | Nothing to pay: no paid plan exists | Free plan; Standard from $69 and Professional $249 a month, billed yearly |
| What the free version allows | Every feature, up to 500 listing pages a run | 10 tasks on 1 device, local runs, 50,000 exported rows a month, 10,000 per export |
| Where it runs | In your Chrome, while you watch | On your computer; in Octoparse's cloud on paid plans |
| Schedules | Repeat a page every day or week, in your Chrome while it is open | On paid plans, on your computer or in the cloud |
| Kinds of site | Shop pages: categories, search results, product pages | Almost any website |
| Output | Excel, CSV, JSON, and a ZIP of photos with a folder per product | Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML, XML, databases and Google Sheets on every plan; Google Drive, Dropbox and S3 on Professional |
| Getting past blocks | It slows down, and stops when a site refuses | IP rotation, residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving on paid plans |
Octoparse's free plan, measured against a catalogue
The free plan is generous for learning: ten tasks, one computer, and 50,000 exported rows a month, at most 10,000 in a single export. A supplier catalogue of 2,000 products fits comfortably. What it leaves out is the cloud, so the computer has to stay on while a task runs, and the scheduling and proxy tools that come with the paid plans.
Web Product Scraper has no plan to outgrow. The only limit is per run: it stops at 500 listing pages or at the product count you chose, and the next run on the same shop adds what is not in the list yet.
Designing a task, or a reader that knows shops
In Octoparse you teach the tool each site. Auto-detect suggests the fields, then you adjust the workflow until the price, the next-page button and the product links are right. That flexibility is why it copes with almost any site, and why a new site starts with some setup.
Web Product Scraper starts from the other end. It already knows the pages of Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and BigCommerce stores, reads the structured product data most other shops publish, and asks you to point at a value only when a shop does something unusual. The price and the struck-out price are told apart without a rule from you.
Where Octoparse is the better choice
Runs while you are away
Cloud extraction and schedules on the paid plans keep collecting with your computer off.
Logins and CAPTCHAs
Its Chrome Mode uses your local Chrome for pages behind a login or a CAPTCHA, and the paid plans add proxies and CAPTCHA solving.
Data into other systems
Exports to databases and Google Sheets on every plan, and to Google Drive, Dropbox and S3 on Professional, rather than files you move by hand.
Sources
Octoparse's own pages, where the facts above come from. Their pages win when they differ from this one.
Octoparse pricingThe free plan's limits, the Standard and Professional prices, and which plans have cloud runs, schedules, exports, proxies and CAPTCHA solving.
Octoparse downloadThe desktop app for Windows and Mac, and its system requirements.
Octoparse VOC on the Chrome Web StoreAn add-on for Amazon review research, not the scraper.
Octoparse AI Web Automation on the Chrome Web StoreA helper that works only with Octoparse AI on Windows.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Octoparse have a Chrome extension?
Not for its scraper. Octoparse is a desktop app for Windows and Mac, and its Chrome Mode controls the Chrome on your computer from inside that app. Its two Chrome Web Store items are add-ons for other Octoparse products: VOC for Amazon reviews and a helper for Octoparse AI.
Which is quicker for a Shopify collection?
Web Product Scraper reads a Shopify collection from the store's product feed, 250 products per request, so a few hundred products arrive in seconds without opening a product page.
Can Web Product Scraper run on a schedule?
Yes, simply: a page can repeat every day or week, up to 10 watched pages, and the list marks every price that moved. It runs in your own Chrome, so a run that falls due while Chrome is closed waits until it is open again. For runs in the cloud with your computer off, Octoparse's paid plans are made for that.
Do I lose anything by not paying?
Not with Web Product Scraper: every feature, the photo ZIP and the PDF catalogue included, is in the one free version.