If your team has a coding background and needs to automate the way to export data or control tasks, you may try out Octoparse OpenAPI.
In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to connect Octoparse API step by step through an HTTP requester application Postman.
NOTE:
Please note that this tutorial is only for showing some basic settings when you connect to our API and you can follow it to see if the API works for you. However, the steps demonstrated here cannot be automated. If you want an automated way to export the data, you need to code it yourself
For more information about Octoparse OpenAPI, please check out this document: Octoparse OpenAPI Document
To start with, you might need to know that Octoparse provides Standard and Professional plans with different API services. You may need to upgrade your account to enjoy more APIs.
Get Access Token
You need to get the Access Token first as you need to add the access token to the header of the other requests.
Visit https://openapi.octoparse.com/token in Postman and select the request method as POST
Go to the Headers section and put "Content-Type" in the KEY field and "application/json" in the VALUE field
Go to the Body section, select raw, copy and paste the code below, and make sure that the detected format is JSON
{ "username": "account username", "password": "account password", "grant_type": "password"}Replace the account username with your Octoparse account user name, and the account password with your Octoparse account password
Note: Please make sure to input your username instead of an email address.
Click SEND to start requesting
If your token is successfully requested, you will see a response like this:
NOTE:
The correct token code should be between "access_token" and "token_type" and without quotation marks
The token you've been given will only be valid for 24 hours. We suggest that you use the same token within its valid time frame.
You may either request a new token using the service or use Refresh Token to get a new one when the token expires.
Get task group information
Start a new request in Postman
Input this link: https://openapi.octoparse.com/taskGroup, select the request method as GET
Go to the Headers section, input Authorization in the KEY field, and "Bearer {Access Token}" in the VALUE field
NOTE: When pasting the token code in the VALUE column, leave a space between the "Bearer" and the token.
Replace {Access Token} with the token code you get in the last step (don't keep the “{}“)
If you get the response below, then congratulations! You've already connected to the Octoparse API successfully.
