Case Study: eBay Seller Achieves Competitive Edge with Octoparse

Japanese eBay Seller Gains an Edge Over Local Competition

Octoparse helped eBay seller Officecab, led by founder Nakamura in Fukuoka, Japan, tackle the challenge of collecting large volumes of ecommerce data for product research, price analysis, and historical sales tracking. As competition on eBay increased, Nakamura needed a faster, more accurate, and far more cost-effective way to gather millions of data lines than relying on freelancers or manual research.

Using Octoparse’s web scraping and cloud automation, Officecab was able to define exactly what data to collect and run crawls 24/7 without manual effort. Octoparse enabled the business to capture over 6,000,000 data lines in a single crawl, reduce collection time for 100 pieces of data from up to a week to about 10 seconds, and avoid the high cost of hiring manual data collectors, giving the seller a strong competitive edge.

eBay

Nakamura

Founder