Octoparse
A quick guide on how to set up proxies on Octoparse.
- Open the Octoparse application.
- In the top-left menu hover over the New button, and click on Custom Task. For testing purposes, we are going to create a custom task.
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Octoparse – Create a task
- In the URL Input field, indicate the website you would like to extract data from. For this test, we are going to use
ip.smartproxy.com
. Once you do that, hit the Save button.
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Octoparse – Save website URL
- You should now find yourself in your Task tab. To configure our proxies, select the Task Settings button.
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Octoparse – Settings
- In the pop-up menu, choose the Anti-blocking tab and checkmark the option to Access websites via proxies. You should now be able to click on the Configure button.
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Octoparse – Proxy settings
- In the Proxy Settings pop-up, define the proxy you would like to use. Unfortunately, Octoparse only offers
IP:PORT
based format to authenticate through a proxy network. For that particular reason, you will need to use our Whitelisted IP feature to skip the traditionalusername:password
authentication when going through a proxy. You can whitelist your IP after logging into our dashboard here. - Once you have your
IP:PORT
ready, select the Switch interval according to your session type. If you are using a rotating session type, set the interval to 1. If you are using a sticky session, set it to 600. Finally, hit the Confirm button.
Octoparse – Proxy switch interval
- You can enable some other settings here, like Auto-switch browser agents or Auto clear cookies. Once you're satisfied with your settings, click Save to continue.
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Octoparse – Save proxy settings
- To extract data from our example page, click on the IP address that you can see at the top of the Octoparse application and select Text in the Extract data option.
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Octoparse – Extract data from the example page
- Once that is done, click on Save and then Run.
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Octoparse – Save and Run
- Depending on how you want to run your task, select one of the available extraction options. For testing purposes, you can Run task on your device in Standard Mode.
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Octoparse – Run Task
- If done correctly, you should see our proxy IP in the extracted data table once the task is finished.
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Octoparse – Extraction completed
The following video displays the same instructions described above. However, the dashboard and thus the instructions in the video might be outdated.
Updated 8 months ago