Case Study: The University of Texas achieves unique social media research data with Octoparse

The University of Texas - Customer Case Study

The University of Texas researcher used Octoparse to support academic work on social media interactions. Her challenge was gathering dynamic, live-streaming data at scale, since this kind of data leaves no traces and is difficult to capture manually or with self-built Python and R scripts, especially when debugging and failures can waste massive amounts of work.

Octoparse provided a cloud web scraping solution that let her collect the streaming data she needed with scheduled hourly runs and up to 20 concurrent cloud servers. With Octoparse, she could fetch millions of data points faster than her own scripts, avoid IP-blocking issues through server rotation, and get support when needed. The result was smoother execution of two research projects, more reliable access to unique data, and a stronger foundation for writing papers and expanding the research long term.

The University of Texas