{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "diffbot", "name": "Diffbot", "vendor": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.diffbot.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Diffbot is a hosted set of web data APIs from Diffbot Technologies Corp. of Menlo Park, California. Its Extract API classifies a page and returns typed JSON, alongside Crawl, Web Search, Natural Language and Knowledge Graph APIs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json", "repo": "https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "diffbot" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@diffbot/typescript" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve token from the dashboard at app.diffbot.com, sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. The official client sends it as a Bearer header to the Web Search endpoint. Tokens carry no scopes. Child tokens have the same rights as the primary token and can be created in the dashboard on the Plus plan and above, or through support. A changelog entry of 30 June 2025 is titled as adding labels and a disable switch for tokens in the dashboard.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 10,000 credits a month at 5 requests a minute, with no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Startup is $299 a month for 250,000 credits with overage at $0.001 a credit, Plus $899 for 1,000,000 with overage at $0.0009 and access to Crawl, Enterprise by sales. One extracted page is 1 credit, or 2 through the data centre proxy. Whether a failed extraction uses a credit was not found (https://www.diffbot.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the authentication and rate limit docs, the Extract OpenAPI file or the official clients (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 9, "pypiWeekly": 45, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.diffbot.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.diffbot.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.diffbot.com/openapi/extract.json", "capabilities": [ "web.extract", "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "scraping.proxies", "web.search", "data.knowledge", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "agent-skills", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "knowledge-graph", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 687, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 21, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.", "bestFor": "Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1.0 description of the Extract APIs (version 1.1.0, 13 operations) is published at `/openapi/extract.json` and the reference pages are generated from it", "Free plan of 10,000 credits a month with no card, and a public credit table. One extracted page costs 1 credit, or 2 through the data centre proxy", "Official Python and TypeScript clients and ten agent skills, all MIT. The Python client reached 3.0.0 on 28 September 2026 with tests on Python 3.9 to 3.13", "Dated changelog with an RSS feed going back to 2015, and a `/v3` path for the Extract APIs", "The privacy policy of 29 August 2025 names each service provider, among them AWS, Stripe, Intercom and Salesforce, and says all are in the United States" ], "weaknesses": [ "The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file", "Child tokens have the same access rights as the primary token, and creating them needs the Plus plan ($899 a month) or a request to support", "No security page, certification, bug bounty or security.txt was found on the pages read. The privacy policy says some API calls rely on HTTP without encryption", "The status page is a Pingdom report with seven days of uptime per check and no incident notes. Analyze API shows 99.69 per cent for the week to 9 October 2026", "The docs give `pip install diffbot-python` and `pnpm add diffbot-typescript`, while the repositories now name the packages `diffbot` and `@diffbot/typescript`", "The terms grant Diffbot a perpetual, irrevocable licence to process submitted queries, cap liability at $10, and forbid software that scrapes or crawls the Site or Service. That clause matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?url=\u003cencoded URL\u003e\u0026token=\u003ctoken\u003e` when the page type is unknown. Use `/v3/article` or `/v3/product` to force one schema", "Keep the token out of logs and shared URLs. It sits in the query string, so any proxy or log that records the request URL records the token", "Stay under 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus. On 429 wait at least one second and back off", "Check a 200 response for `errorCode`. The official client raises `ExtractionError` when a 200 reports a failed extraction", "Set `useProxy=default` only when a site blocks the fetch. A proxied page costs 2 credits against 1", "Install `diffbot` from PyPI, not `diffbot-python`, which stopped at 0.3.0" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 21, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "python3 -m pip install diffbot", "http": "curl --request GET \\\n --url 'https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?token=\u003cDIFFBOT_TOKEN\u003e\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diffbot.com%2Fdocs%2Fintroduction' \\\n --header 'accept: application/json'", "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add diffbot/diffbot-skills\n/plugin install diffbot@diffbot-skills" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.extract", "tool": "https://letme.dev/diffbot" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Extracted page, Startup overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1, "note": "1 credit a page at $0.001 a credit" }, { "item": "Extracted page through the data centre proxy, Startup overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 2, "note": "2 credits a page" }, { "item": "Extracted page, Plus overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.9, "note": "1 credit a page at $0.0009 a credit" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "250,000 credits, 5 requests a second" }, { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 899, "note": "1,000,000 credits, 25 requests a second, Crawl" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "domain": "diffbot.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-08-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/terms", "privacy": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.diffbot.com", "changelog": "https://www.diffbot.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use name Diffbot Technologies Corp. as operator and cover both the Site and the Service, defined as the service that converts a web page into entities and facts. They are the only terms the site links, carry no date, and are the document that governs the API.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 29 August 2025, covers visitors, subscribers and people in the index, and gives the address 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025.", "www.diffbot.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. No security or trust page is linked from the home page or footer.", "The Extract APIs answer at api.diffbot.com, the Knowledge Graph at kg.diffbot.com, Natural Language at nl.diffbot.com and Web Search at llm.diffbot.com, per the docs and the official client's defaults.", "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 2004-08-14 for diffbot.com.", "robots.txt on www.diffbot.com allows every path. status.diffbot.com disallows only Alexabot." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.json", "live": { "slug": "diffbot", "probe": { "target": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:07.224584653Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 448, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 425, "p95ms24h": 483, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.diffbot.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:26.061054869Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "diffbot/diffbot-python", "version": "v3.0.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:49:48.055113016Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@diffbot/typescript", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:49:47.576544434Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "diffbot", "version": "3.0.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:49:47.362980242Z" } ], "githubStars": 125, "npmWeekly": 9, "pypiWeekly": 45, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:32.449062952Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "68b5306eaa9b" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:39.088815002Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "86884503041e" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:35.06707487Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fb97996581b3" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:36.709393592Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76686da1f94" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:07.224584653Z" } }, "answer": "Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "scrape-do", "name": "Scrape.do", "vendor": "Scrape.do", "vendorUrl": "https://scrape.do", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Single GET endpoint that fetches a URL through rotating datacenter, residential or mobile proxies, with optional headless rendering, screenshots, markdown output and a proxy mode.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrape-do.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrape.do/", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scrape-do/client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Token in the `token` query parameter on the main API. Proxy mode puts it in the proxy username (proxy.scrape.do:8080) and needs their CA certificate trusted or TLS verification off. The async API takes it in an `X-Token` header.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 successful credits a month and 5 concurrent requests, no card. Hobby $29 a month (250,000 credits), Pro $99 (1.25 million), Business $249 (3.5 million), Advanced $699 (10 million). A datacenter request costs 1 credit, headless rendering 5, residential or mobile 10, both 25, and some domains carry fixed higher costs (google.* 10, linkedin.com 30, sainsburys.co.uk 200). Annual billing gives 2 months free but is set up by support (https://scrape.do/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$29 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing FAQ, which lists card, crypto and bank wire only (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 2, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://scrape.do/documentation/", "llmsTxt": "https://scrape.do/documentation/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.fetch", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "free-tier", "proxies", "llms-txt", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 880, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 57, "security": 23, "transparency": 46 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "$29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed. Token travels in the query string on the main API.", "bestFor": "Cheap bulk fetching through rotating proxies when you call HTTP directly and keep the token server-side.", "strengths": [ "$29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed", "Per-domain credit costs published, and each response carries its cost in a header", "Free plan of 1,000 requests a month with residential proxies and rendering, no card", "Concurrency published for every plan", "Automatic retries on the server side, with `disableRetry` to turn them off" ], "weaknesses": [ "Token travels in the query string on the main API", "No readable status page, SLA or security page", "404 and target 400 responses are billed as successes", "Privacy policy last dated September 2022", "Node SDK last released on 13 November 2024, and no official MCP server" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with the default data centre request (1 credit). Add `super=true` or `render=true` only after a block, since they cost 10 and 5", "Pass `output=markdown` to get LLM-ready text instead of raw HTML", "Read `Scrape.do-Request-Cost` from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass", "Treat a 429 as too many concurrent requests and wait for one to finish", "Keep URLs with `token=` out of logs and shared traces" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 43.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 57, "security": 23, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.scrape.do/?token=$SCRAPEDO_TOKEN\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com\u0026output=markdown\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrape-do" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "250,000 successful credits, 10 concurrent" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "1,250,000 successful credits, 50 concurrent" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 249, "note": "3,500,000 successful credits, 100 concurrent" }, { "item": "Advanced plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 699, "note": "10,000,000 successful credits, 200 concurrent" }, { "item": "Datacenter request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.116, "note": "1 credit a request" }, { "item": "Residential request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.16, "note": "10 credits a request with super=true" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PACKEND, LLC", "domain": "scrape.do", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://scrape.do/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://scrape.do/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://scrape.do/documentation/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The .do registry has no RDAP service, so the registration date couldn't be read.", "status.scrape.do exists behind a CDN shield that returned 403, and the site doesn't link it, so no status page is recorded." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do.json", "live": { "slug": "scrape-do", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scrape.do/", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.546781861Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 88, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 89, "p95ms24h": 235, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 2458, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scrape-do/client", "version": "1.0.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:18:07.798815516Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 3, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scrape.do/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:12.50171776Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://scrape.do/documentation/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:44.324033034Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scrape.do", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:37.896932334Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://scrape.do/documentation/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:54.190156679Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a597f1d69e2d" }, { "url": "https://scrape.do/documentation/changelog/2026-03-12-pricing-page-refresh/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:56.259139364Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c8d4a242823e" }, { "url": "https://scrape.do/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:58.252203885Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "137ece1f2a23" }, { "url": "https://scrape.do/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:00.286664326Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4478a6102da5" }, { "url": "https://scrape.do/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:02.255192817Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3dd299433e7e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:23.546781861Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "b": "Scrape.do", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "b": "https://api.scrape.do/", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-06-15", "b": "2026-07-31", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-08-29", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk", "b": "2 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Diffbot or Scrape.do?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Diffbot and Scrape.do need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Diffbot has a hosted endpoint at https://api.diffbot.com/v3 and Scrape.do at https://api.scrape.do/.", "question": "Can an agent call Diffbot and Scrape.do without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 57", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 57 against 45", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 46" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.", "slug": "diffbot", "watchFor": "The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Cheap bulk fetching through rotating proxies when you call HTTP directly and keep the token server-side.", "slug": "scrape-do", "watchFor": "Token travels in the query string on the main API" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Olostep vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-olostep.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-diffbot" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 15, "diffbot": 55, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scrape-do": 40, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "diffbot": 83, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scrape-do": 57, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "diffbot": 63, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scrape-do": 62, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "diffbot": 21, "edge": "scrape-do", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scrape-do": 23, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "diffbot": 40, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scrape-do": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "diffbot": 57, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scrape-do": 45, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 22, "diffbot": 68, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scrape-do": 46, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping.", "verdicts": { "diffbot": "Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.", "scrape-do": "$29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed. Token travels in the query string on the main API." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.min.md" }, "markdown": "Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping.\n\n- Diffbot: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #687 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json\n- Scrape.do: grade E, 43.7/100, rank #880 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrape-do.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrape-do.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 167 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Diffbot (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 57 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 46\n\nWatch for: The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file\n\n### Scrape.do (E)\n\nGood for: Cheap bulk fetching through rotating proxies when you call HTTP directly and keep the token server-side.\n\nWatch for: Token travels in the query string on the main API\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Diffbot | Scrape.do | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 40 | Diffbot +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 57 | Diffbot +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 62 | Diffbot +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 21 | 23 | Scrape.do +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Diffbot +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 45 | Diffbot +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 46 | Diffbot +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **43.7 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Diffbot | Scrape.do |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Scrape.do |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.scrape.do/` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-07-31 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 2 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Diffbot.** Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.\n\n**Scrape.do.** $29 for 250,000 basic credits, and 429s, 502s and most failures aren't billed. Token travels in the query string on the main API.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Diffbot\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?url=\u003cencoded URL\u003e\u0026token=\u003ctoken\u003e` when the page type is unknown. Use `/v3/article` or `/v3/product` to force one schema\n2. Keep the token out of logs and shared URLs. It sits in the query string, so any proxy or log that records the request URL records the token\n3. Stay under 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus. On 429 wait at least one second and back off\n4. Check a 200 response for `errorCode`. The official client raises `ExtractionError` when a 200 reports a failed extraction\n5. Set `useProxy=default` only when a site blocks the fetch. A proxied page costs 2 credits against 1\n6. Install `diffbot` from PyPI, not `diffbot-python`, which stopped at 0.3.0\n\n### Scrape.do\n\n1. Start with the default data centre request (1 credit). Add `super=true` or `render=true` only after a block, since they cost 10 and 5\n2. Pass `output=markdown` to get LLM-ready text instead of raw HTML\n3. Read `Scrape.do-Request-Cost` from the response headers. Some domains cost 10 to 200 credits whatever you pass\n4. Treat a 429 as too many concurrent requests and wait for one to finish\n5. Keep URLs with `token=` out of logs and shared traces\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Diffbot or Scrape.do?\n\nDiffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Scrape.do's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Diffbot and Scrape.do need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Diffbot and Scrape.do without installing anything?\n\nYes. Diffbot has a hosted endpoint at https://api.diffbot.com/v3 and Scrape.do at https://api.scrape.do/.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"diffbot\", \"b\": \"scrape-do\"}`. 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