How to bypass Ads pop-up in Octoparse?
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The extraction speed of a crawler is affected by the speed of page loading. If many unexpected ads appear on the web page, such as banners and pop-ups, the page will load slowly and waste your time. Ad blocking can reduce your page requests and thus optimize the loading time.
So, how can we block ads in Octoparse? Let's follow this tutorial for two solutions that can handle this issue.
Solution 1: Block the ads in the workflow
- Click Go to Web Page > Option
- Tick Block pop-up (Ads possibly)
- Click Apply to save the change
Solution 2: Block the ads in the task setting
- Click
at the top right corner of Octoparse interface
- Tick Block Ads
- Click Save
Tips:
1. Using the Ad blocking technique may change the structure of some web pages. If so, please adjust the XPath to re-locate the elements.
To learn more about XPath, check here: What is XPath and how to use it in Octoparse?
2. Using Ad blocking may cause page loading issues. If you find page loads improperly, for example, the page cannot be loaded at all, please do not select Ad blocking.
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