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Suppose you have a scheduled task that runs daily and you want to export the scraped data to your local device each day. Manually exporting the data after each run can be inconvenient, but Octoparse 8.7.7 has you covered!
With Auto-export, the data can be exported automatically. Just follow the steps below:
Step 1. Go to the Task Settings -> Auto-export -> Export to local folder -> Edit
Step 2. Choose the format that you want to export the data to and the location where you want to save the data file
Step 3. Choose a way to name the data file
Step 4. Choose a way to deal with files of the same name
Create a new file with current timestamp: The newly scraped data will be exported to a new file each time.
Replace the existing file: The newly scraped data will overwrite the old data in the file.
Append new data to the existing file: all the scraped data (both new and old) will be saved in the same file.
Step 5. Tick Remove duplicates and Close window upon completion
Remove duplicates: Untick this option if you want to keep all the data, including duplicates.
Close window upon completion: Untick this option if you want the window to remain open after the task finishes.
Export an empty file if no data is extracted: Tick this option if you still want a file to be generated even when no data is extracted.
Step 6. Click Confirm to save the settings
Tip:
Data will only be exported when the task status changes from Running to Complete.
For Cloud data, only non-exported data will be exported.
For local data, only the latest batch of data will be exported.