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by awad 2471 days ago
How do you differentiate from Octoparse?
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There is plenty of differences among which 1/ we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc) which allows us to be resilient to website updates 2/ we offer a simple UI that automates data selection and structuration and 3/ we are available on Windows and MacOS =)
> we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc)

I'm not buying this, does AI process html as text lol? Surely it process it as a tree, right?

We use machine learning to extract the content of the page, which means when the webpage changes you don't have to update your selection like Octoparse.