# Diffbot Grok API Evaluation

**Category:** Webscraping
**Score:** 68 (C)

This is the agent-readable Devtool Arena evaluation page for Diffbot on Grok API.

## Summary

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Status | completed |
| Overall score | 68 |
| Grade | C |
| Eval score | 68 |
| Discovery score | 71 |
| Cost | $1.26 |
| Runtime | 4m 37s |
| Tool calls | 27 |
| Errors | 0 |
| Tokens used | 1042561 |
| Success | Yes |

## Agent-Readiness Checklist

| Signal | Evidence |
|--------|----------|
| Context7 | Not found |
| llms.txt | https://diffbot.com/llms.txt |
| MCP server | https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-mcp |
| Typed SDK | https://pypi.org/pypi/diffbot/json |
| OpenAPI | Not found |
| Agent skills | https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills |
| CLI | https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-python/blob/main/README.md |

## Evaluation Prompt

````text

# Task
Using https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-python/blob/main/README.md, complete the following task:

Using the Diffbot Python SDK, build me a script that scrapes web content:

1. Install the official Diffbot Python SDK (pip install)
2. Scrape the page at "https://news.ycombinator.com"
3. Extract the top 5 story titles and their URLs
4. Print the results as JSON array with fields: rank, title, url

You MUST use the official Diffbot Python SDK — do not make raw HTTP/REST calls. 

## Execution
After creating the script, run it to verify it works:
```bash
cd /home/daytona/app && python <your_script>.py
```

The script should print output to stdout. If there are errors, debug and fix them until it runs successfully.

````

## Grader Results

| Check | Passed | Weight | Score | Details |
|-------|--------|--------|-------|---------|
| Cost | No | 0 | 0 | $1.26 (≥$1.00, too expensive) |
| Time | No | 0 | 0 | 277s (3–5min, slow) |
| Efficiency | No | 0 | 0 | 27 tool calls (>25, inefficient) |
| Found Docs | Yes | 0 | — | Touched [REDACTED:TENANT] at github.com: yes (8 matching tool calls) |
| Zero Errors | Yes | 0 | — | No errors in tool outputs |
| Syntax Valid | Yes | 0 | — | Code compiles/parses correctly |
| Created Files | Yes | 0 | — | Generated files: 1 (need ≥1) |
| Full Execution | Yes | 0 | — | Method: full_execution, Exit: 0 |

## Run Artifacts

| Artifact | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Conversation turns | 28 |
| Tool call traces | 27 |
| Generated files | 1 |
| Exit code | 0 |
| Completed at | 2026-10-19T16:13:50.918216+00:00 |

### Generated Files

- /home/daytona/app/scrape_hn.py

## Related Pages

- [Grok API leaderboard](/grok/api)
- [Compare Grok API companies](/grok/api/compare)
- [Agent Landscape](/discoverability)

Canonical URL: https://devtoolarena.com/grok/api/diffbot