Is Ollagraph no-code like Octoparse?

No — Ollagraph is API-first. You call an HTTP endpoint with a bearer token and get JSON back. That's the deliberate trade-off: less hand-holding for non-coders, far more power for engineers and agents.

Can Ollagraph schedule recurring scrapes like Octoparse cloud?

Ollagraph handles long and recurring work through async jobs with webhook delivery; you trigger them from your own scheduler or pipeline rather than a built-in visual scheduler.

It depends on volume and workload. Ollagraph prices in credits — 1 per call, failed calls auto-refund — with pay-as-you-go from $5 and 1,000 free credits to start. Compare against Octoparse's plans on their pricing page.

Ollagraph vs Octoparse — honest comparison

Octoparse pioneered no-code visual scraping for non-developers. Ollagraph is the API-first alternative for teams who'd rather call an endpoint than configure a desktop workflow.

What Octoparse does well

Octoparse makes scraping approachable for non-engineers — a point-and-click visual builder, templates for popular sites, and cloud scheduling. For analysts who don't write code and need a repeatable extraction without engineering help, it's a strong fit.

Where Ollagraph goes further

API-first, not a desktop app. Ollagraph is a single HTTP endpoint family — no visual builder to configure, no client to install. Drop it into any pipeline, agent, or cron job.
Structured output + intelligence. Clean markdown for LLMs, JSON-LD/OpenGraph extraction, plus DNS/WHOIS/SSL/enrichment in the same API. Octoparse focuses on the scrape itself.
Agent-native. An MCP server and natural-language browser actions make Ollagraph usable directly by AI agents. Octoparse targets human operators.
Per-call economics. Credits at 1 per call, pay-as-you-go from $5, failed calls auto-refund.

Side by side

Feature	Octoparse	Ollagraph
No-code visual builder	Yes (its core)	API-first
Programmatic HTTP API	Limited	Native
Clean markdown output for LLMs	Not native	Native
Domain intelligence (DNS/WHOIS/SSL)	Not offered	Included
Vertical actors (Amazon, Zillow, Maps)	Site templates	Dedicated extractors
MCP server for AI agents	Not offered	Included
Async + webhooks	Cloud schedules	Native
Free to start	Free plan	1,000 credits

Who each is best for

Choose Octoparse if: Non-technical analysts who prefer a visual, point-and-click tool and don't want to write or call code.

Choose Ollagraph if: Engineering and AI teams who want a programmatic API — scraping plus intelligence plus agent tooling — they can wire into a pipeline.

Sources & further reading

The standards behind every tool in this comparison, for readers who want the primary sources rather than our summary of them:

Web scraping (Wikipedia) — the category these tools operate in, with its technical and legal background.
RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol (IETF, 2022) — the robots.txt standard a responsible crawler honors.
JSON-LD 1.1 (W3C Recommendation) — the structured-data format these tools extract.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Lewis et al., 2020) — the AI pattern most of this web data ultimately feeds.

Ollagraph vs Octoparse