The Affordable Alternative to Diffbot

Accessible pricing

AlterLab starts at $0.0001 per request with no minimum commitment. Use it for 10 requests or 10 million — scale naturally without enterprise sales negotiations.

Built-in anti-bot bypass

Unlike Diffbot, AlterLab includes automatic anti-bot handling. No separate proxy setup needed for protected sites.

Flexible extraction methods

AlterLab supports CSS selector extraction, regex patterns, and AI-powered content parsing. Choose the right tool for each use case.

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.diffbot.com/v3/article",
    params={
        "token": "YOUR_TOKEN",
        "url": "https://example.com/article"
    }
)

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"},
    json={
        "url": "https://example.com/article",
        "extract": {
            "title": "h1",
            "content": "article",
            "author": ".author-name"
        }
    }
)