Why this happens
When saving your tasks in Octoparse, you may see a pop-up message:
“Failed to save task due to website restriction. Your target website disallows any web scrapers.”
This error occurs because you are trying to scrape Facebook.com or Instagram.com. These websites explicitly disallow data scraping, and Octoparse does not support extracting data from them.
Important Notes
URLs containing Facebook/Instagram are not allowed
Even if the website is not Facebook or Instagram directly, the task will still fail if the URL contains them as parameters.Example (disallowed):
https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook.com
Use alternative steps
Instead of entering a URL that includes "facebook.com" or "instagram.com", try:Setting up steps to input search keywords directly on the webpage.
Navigating to the results page without including restricted domains in the URL.