How Octoparse AI automates your busywork in a smarter way?

Automation doesn’t have to be complex or out of reach. Octoparse AI brings automation to your fingertips, offering a flexible, AI-powered RPA tool that runs directly on your local machines. Whether you're looking to extract web data, streamline repetitive tasks, or connect systems that don’t speak to each other, Octoparse AI helps you do more with less — without writing a single line of code.

This guide will give you a clear picture of what Octoparse AI is, what it can do, and how it can empower you or your team to work smarter, not harder.

Octoparse AI is a locally-run robotic process automation (RPA) tool designed to help you automate actions across websites, desktop applications, databases, and more. You create automation workflows — which we call Apps — by assembling a series of instructions known as Commands. These Apps can be executed on your computer through the main Octoparse client, or remotely via Bots that allow for 24/7 unattended execution across multiple devices.

Unlike traditional enterprise RPA platforms that can be heavy and costly to implement, Octoparse AI is built to be lightweight, intuitive, and accessible to both technical and non-technical users. It’s particularly well-suited for small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies, and teams with limited IT resources who still want powerful automation capabilities.

With Octoparse AI, you can build automation visually, using drag-and-drop Commands to map out exactly what you want the App to do. There's no need to code — if you can describe what the task looks like step by step, you can build it. And to make things even easier, Octoparse includes an AI-powered Workflow Wizard (currently in beta), which lets you generate a working App just by describing your task in natural language. It’s an ideal way to get started if you're not quite sure how to translate your idea into actions.

More importantly, Octoparse doesn’t just automate websites. You can also use it to interact with desktop software, manipulate local files, read from databases, and move data across different systems — even when those systems don’t offer APIs or direct integration options. Instead of waiting on engineering teams or long IT approvals, Octoparse enables you to work around those limitations by mimicking real human interactions through the UI.

Because everything runs locally, you have complete control over your data. This makes Octoparse AI a good fit for organizations that handle sensitive information or need to stay compliant with strict data policies. You don't need to upload anything to the cloud to get the job done — the automation happens where you are.

Octoparse AI is deeply integrated with leading AI models like GPT-4o, Claude, and DeepSeek. This means you can go beyond basic task automation and start solving problems that involve reading, understanding, and organizing content — such as extracting key fields from a contract or classifying documents based on intent or topic. You can also use AI to assist in building workflows, giving you suggestions or generating Commands based on your input. AI isn’t just a buzzword here — it’s baked into the product to help you work smarter.

For many teams, especially those in small to mid-sized organizations, Octoparse AI offers the perfect balance between power and simplicity. It reduces manual workload, lowers operating costs, and lets your team move faster without relying heavily on developers or IT infrastructure.

By running locally, it protects your data. By working through the UI, it bypasses the need for APIs. And by combining traditional automation with modern AI capabilities, it helps you tackle both structured and unstructured tasks in one place.

In short, it’s automation that fits the real world — and fits you.

Now that you know what Octoparse AI is capable of, it's time to explore how to start building with it. In the next guide, we’ll introduce you to automation thinking: how to look at a task, break it down into logical steps, and map those steps into an actual App. We’ll walk you through a simple example — automatically liking a TikTok video — to show how an everyday idea can turn into an automated workflow.

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