What is Diffbot?
Diffbot · script · class ai
Commercial web-data extraction resold to customers.
Verdict: Charge it or block it. It did not say who it was.
Profile
Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON
| Operator | Diffbot · www.diffbot.com |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Scripts and scrapers. Bare HTTP libraries, scraping frameworks, headless browsers. Nobody identified themselves; paid by default. |
| User-agent contains | diffbot |
| robots.txt | User-agent: DiffbotDisallow: / |
| How to verify | No published verification method. Treat the name as a claim, not proof. |
| Should you block it? | Charge it or block it. It did not say who it was. |
| Does it pay? | No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing. |
| Docs | https://www.diffbot.com/ |
Observed on the network
Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.
No sightings reported yet. Diffbot appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.
Do something about it
- See it in your own logs, verify it, and charge, allow or block it by name with the free Pay-per-Crawl plugin (WordPress, Python, JavaScript, Go, PHP).
- Run this crawler? Publish a crawler-profile.json on your domain and this page shows your declared profile with a verified badge.
- Machine-readable twin: /bots/diffbot/profile.json (free in a browser). Machines: POST
{"slug":"diffbot"}to x402.forgemesh.io/bot-profiles, $0.005 per call over x402.
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