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AI · May 20, 2015

Diffbot

Extract content from articles, products, videos and more

Diffbot launched on May 20, 2015 with 272 votes, #59 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Diffbot is an API platform that extracts structured data from web content including articles, products, and videos. It enables AI systems to ground responses in verified facts from the public web rather than relying on limited training data. The service offers a private web search alternative without ads or telemetry, packaging essential web content into a searchable database for organizations that need reliable, factual information extraction at scale.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Documentation for Diffbot — transform the raw web into structured knowledge.

Fetch knowledge, not markdown. Diffbot grounds your AI on verified facts from the public web. Run the agent to watch the suite work — each step is a real Diffbot API call you can inspect. The dot com days are over, but web search is still monetized on ads and scraped for API access. At Diffbot, we have a better solution — Web search you own. No ads. No telemetry. It turns out, you don't need all 150TB of the web to power a competent purpose-built local search engine. We've packaged it down to just 4TB of essential news, docs, homepages, recipes, and whatever else you need. Take an entire web index with you on a boat trip and stay online while offline. Diffbot Web Search API currently…from diffbot.com

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