Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for Diffbot
Turn web pages into structured data and look up companies and people with Diffbot.
- Actions
- 8
- Read
- 8
- Write
- 0
Actions
What your agents can do in Diffbot
Turn web pages into structured data and look up companies and people with Diffbot: extract any page automatically, or as an article (clean text, author, date, topics), a product (price, brand, SKU, specs) or a discussion (posts and replies); find a company or person in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph from partial details; search the Knowledge Graph with its query language (DQL); and pull entities, facts and sentiment out of text.
Read 8
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Extract any page
Fetches a web page, works out what kind of page it is (article, product, discussion, image, video, or other) and extracts it in objects[0] with that type's fields.
Extract an article
Extracts a news article or blog post from its page.
Extract a product
Extracts a product from its page on any store: title, offerPrice and offerPriceDetails.
Extract a discussion
Extracts a forum thread, comment section or review page: the thread title, numPosts, participants, and posts, each with author, date, text, id and the post it replies to.
Find a company
Finds the best-matching company in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph from partial details (a name, website, location or phone) and returns it in data[0].entity with a match score.
Find a person
Finds the best-matching person in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph from partial details.
Search the Knowledge Graph
Searches the Diffbot Knowledge Graph of organizations, people, articles, products and more with a DQL query and returns matching entities in data (each entity, with score) and the total in hits.
Analyze text
Reads up to 100,000 characters of text and returns the entities it mentions (people, companies, places, products, with Knowledge Graph links and per-entity sentiment), the overall sentiment.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Diffbot but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Diffbot account.
What you enter
- API token
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Diffbot data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can extract any page, extract an article or extract a product in Diffbot, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Diffbot and Slack: it can extract any page in Diffbot and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
- 03
Run it as a workflow step
Add "Extract any page" to a workflow, and it runs in Diffbot the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
- Brave Search3 actionsSearch the web, news and images with Brave's independent search index.
- Exa3 actionsSearch the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
FAQ
Diffbot and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Diffbot?
Yes. The Diffbot connector has 8 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Diffbot?
Paste an API key from your Diffbot account. You'll need: API token. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Diffbot without asking?
No. Every Diffbot action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Diffbot in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Diffbot action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Diffbot to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.