The best Diffbot
alternatives.
When you need any URL, not just what is in the knowledge graph. The tools that extract structured data from the live web.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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Firecrawl
Turns public pages into clean Markdown for LLMs, with crawling.
Best for · LLM-ready text from public sites
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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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Apify
A marketplace of pre-built Actors for popular targets.
Best for · ready-made scrapers for known sites
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Zyte
A scraping platform from the Scrapy team, with smart proxies and AI extraction.
Best for · teams building on Scrapy
Switching from Diffbot.
Diffbot classifies pages with AI extractors and a knowledge graph, priced for enterprise analysis. When the job is structured data from known URLs at scale, one autoparse call covers it.
- Structured JSON without an extractor taxonomy
- Protected pages included
- Per-page credits, not analysis pricing
# before: Diffbot
curl "https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?token=TOKEN\
&url=https://example.com/product"
# after: Zenrows
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com/product&autoparse=true"How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.