The invention provides a method and system for parallel square crossing network data collection. The method comprises the steps that S1 a collection method is determined, and S2 tasks are updated at regular time, wherein if a common URL list collection method is determined, data and metadata of a webpage to be downloaded are directly downloaded according to a URL list, and if a square crossing collection method is determined, a webpage to be downloaded is searched by utilizing a crossing keyword list, and data and metadata of the webpage is downloaded. Scanning inspection is carried out on all webpages from the first layer to the current layer in a downloaded webpage, and when the last modification time of a newly downloaded webpage is later than the last modification time of a downloaded webpage, data collection is carried out on the newly downloaded webpage, and webpage data records are updated. By means of the method and system for parallel square crossing network data collection, potential risks and cost in the multithreading technology are avoided, potential risks and cost in multithreading parallel collection are lowered, parallel collection of mass data can be carried out more stably and more efficiently, and data reading and inquiring efficiency is improved.