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Originally published as https://www.octoparse.com/blog/octoparse-85-empowers-the-local-web-scraping/?med= on February 22, 2022.
Here is the exciting news: Octoparse 8.5 is now released with game-changing new features and major improvements. Previously we all know that we can count on cloud scraping when it comes to scraping fast at scale, but this time, we want to make local scraping just as competitive.
What’s new in Octoparse 8.5?
Scraping Speed, Ease of Use, and Secure Data Storage are essential elements to a web scraping tool and its users. These are what Octoparse 8.5 is designed to focus on.
For this update, most of the work goes to Local Run/Local Scraping (compared to Cloud Scraping), dashboard task management, and some smaller optimizations such as Switch Cloud IP for a task & Time Zone Conversion.
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Though the main updates are covered in this article, there is more to be explored. Here is a comprehensive version of Octoparse 8.5 updates plus technical guides
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