# Diffbot, free, GET /v3/article: Web scraping API

> Automatically extract clean article text and other data from news articles, blog posts and other text-heavy pages.

Diffbot's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML, Text, Summary, Links, Images.
We haven't run Diffbot through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,089 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[80legs's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/80legs/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-get-v3-article
- [Web scraping API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.diffbot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/article`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.diffbot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.diffbot.com/docs/extract/article?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Diffbot (https://www.diffbot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- HTML: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Summary: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Analyze (Extract API) · Product (Extract API) · Image (Extract API) · Video (Extract API) · Discussion (Extract API) · Event (Extract API) · List (Extract API) · Job (Extract API) · Extract with Custom API · Run a Web Search (GET) · Run a Web Search (POST) · Process Text · Search with DQL (GET) · Search with DQL (POST) · Enhance (GET) · Enhance (POST) · Combine · Create a Bulkjob

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Automatically extract clean article text and other data from news articles, blog posts and other text-heavy pages.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: USE RESTRICTIONS [...] You agree that you will not: sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share, or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party (However, you may display and use the facts generated by the Service as part of a commercial application.), use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities, use the Service to attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group, use another user’s account without permission, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Site or Service, modify, adapt or hack the Service to, or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks, use the API or the Data in any manner that violates the rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or rights of publicity, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service, bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Site or Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Site or Service or harvest or manipulate data, or publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser, computer, or mobile device.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 10,000 calls a month
- Expires: at the monthly refresh, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: fields, timeout, proxy, proxyAuth, useProxy, paging, maxTags, tagConfidence, categoryConfidence, discussion, naturalLanguage, summaryNumSentences
- Method: GET
- Path: /v3/article

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 13 or over

## The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

page URL, API used, API version, page type, page title, page text, page HTML, published date, estimated date, author, authors, author URL, site name, site icon, language, publisher region, publisher country, page sentiment, page tags, page categories, images, Diffbot URI, page comments, resolved page URL, location, page count, next page URLs, videos, page links, external links, meta tags, query string, page breadcrumb, page quotes, named entities, summary, page facts, open facts, page records, page sentences

## Diffbot's plans (5)

- [Diffbot, free, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-get-v3-article/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [Diffbot, free, Diffbot for Students, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-diffbot-for-students-get-v3-article/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [Diffbot, $299 monthly, Startup, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/299-monthly-startup-get-v3-article/llms.txt): $1.196 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [Diffbot, $899 monthly, Plus, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/899-monthly-plus-get-v3-article/llms.txt): $0.899 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [Diffbot, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/contact-us-enterprise-get-v3-article/llms.txt): 71% complete

## Diffbot's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v3/analyze`: [Diffbot, free, GET /v3/analyze](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-get-v3-analyze/llms.txt)
- `GET /v3/article`: [Diffbot, free, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-get-v3-article/llms.txt)

## Diffbot's APIs (7)

- [Diffbot: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-dql/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: job postings API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-dql/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-dql/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v3/article](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/diffbot/free-get-v3-article/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /kg/v3/enhance/combine](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-enhance-combine/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /kg/v3/enhance/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/diffbot/free-post-kg-v3-enhance-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /kg/v3/enhance](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-enhance/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /kg/v3/enhance/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/diffbot/free-post-kg-v3-enhance-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /kg/v3/enhance](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/diffbot/free-get-kg-v3-enhance/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: web search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/v1/web_search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/diffbot/free-free-get-api-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- [Diffbot: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/web_search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/diffbot/free-free-post-api-v1-web-search/llms.txt)

## Diffbot: web scraping API alternatives

- [crawlbrulee, €399 monthly, ultra, POST /api/scrape, Scrape (http, basic proxy)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbrulee/399-monthly-ultra-post-api-scrape-scrape-http-basic-proxy/llms.txt): $0.898 per 1,000, 57% complete, 2 days
- [Scrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeless/49-monthly-growth-post-api-v2-unlocker-request-js-render/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $90 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/90-monthly-pro-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 57% complete, 3 days
- [Decodo, $999 monthly, $999, POST /v1/scrape, 1,110,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/decodo/999-monthly-999-post-v1-scrape-1110000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- https://www.diffbot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/company/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/company/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/dql/concepts/origin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/dql/faq/data-sourcing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/extract/article?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/extract/faq/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/products/knowledge-graph?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.diffbot.com/technology?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing