--- source_url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffbot?utm_source=openai" title: Diffbot - Wikipedia mirrored_at: 2026-09-01T13:04:10.687Z host: en.wikipedia.org cited_in_42a: true mirror_canonical: "https://index.42a.ai/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffbot__q__utm_source_openai" --- > **Original source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffbot?utm_source=openai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diffbot Type [Private company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_company "Private company") Industry [Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet "Internet") Founder Mike Tung Headquarters [Menlo Park, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California "Menlo Park, California") , U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people - Mike Tung ([CEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer "Chief executive officer")) Services [Web APIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API "Web API"), [Enterprise Search](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_search "Enterprise search"), [Web Scraping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping "Web scraping"), [Web Crawling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler "Web crawler") Website [www.diffbot.com](https://www.diffbot.com/) **Diffbot** is a developer of [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") and [computer vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision "Computer vision") algorithms and public [APIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API "API") for extracting data from web pages / [web scraping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping "Web scraping") to create a [knowledge base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_base "Knowledge base"). The company has gained interest from its application of computer vision technology to [web pages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page "Web page"), wherein it visually parses a web page for important elements and returns them in a [structured format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network "Semantic network").[\[1\]](#cite_note-refname7-1) In 2015 Diffbot announced it was working on its version of an automated "[knowledge graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph "Knowledge graph")" by crawling the web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large database of structured web data.[\[2\]](#cite_note-refname8-2) In 2019 Diffbot released their Knowledge Graph which has since grown to include over two billion entities (corporations, people, articles, products, discussions, and more), and ten trillion "facts." The company's products allow software developers to analyze web home pages and article pages,[\[3\]](#cite_note-refname2-3) and extract the "important information" while ignoring elements deemed not core to the primary content.[\[4\]](#cite_note-refname3-4) In August 2012 the company released its Page Classifier API, which automatically categorizes web pages into specific "page types".[\[5\]](#cite_note-refname4-5) As part of this, Diffbot analyzed 750,000 web pages shared on the social media service [Twitter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter "Twitter") and revealed that photos, followed by articles and videos, are the predominant web media shared on the social network.[\[6\]](#cite_note-refname5-6) In September 2020 the company released a Natural Language Processing API for automatically building Knowledge Graphs from text.[\[7\]](#cite_note-7) [\[8\]](#cite_note-8) The company raised $2 million in funding in May 2012 from investors including [Andy Bechtolsheim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim "Andy Bechtolsheim") and [Sky Dayton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Dayton "Sky Dayton").[\[9\]](#cite_note-refname6-9) Diffbot's customers include [Adobe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems "Adobe Systems"), [AOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL "AOL"), [Cisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco "Cisco"), [DuckDuckGo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo "DuckDuckGo"), [eBay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay "EBay"), [Instapaper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instapaper "Instapaper"), [Microsoft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft "Microsoft"), Onswipe and [Springpad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springpad "Springpad").[\[4\]](#cite_note-refname3-4)[\[5\]](#cite_note-refname4-5)[\[10\]](#cite_note-refname9-10) - [GPT-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 "GPT-3") - [AlphaEvolve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaEvolve "AlphaEvolve") 1. [↑](#cite_ref-refname7_1-0) ["Diffbot Lets Developers Navigate Code the Way Our Eyes See the World"](https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/25/diffbot-lets-developers-navigate-code-the-way-our-eyes-see-the-world/). TheNextWeb. August 25, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2013. 2. [↑](#cite_ref-refname8_2-0) ["Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's 'Knowledge Graph'"](https://www.wired.com/2015/06/startup-shares-google-knowledge-graph-clone-everyone/). Wired. June 4, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015. 3. [↑](#cite_ref-refname2_3-0) Kim, Ryan (August 25, 2011). ["Diffbot Helps Apps Read the Web Like Humans"](http://gigaom.com/2011/08/25/diffbot-helps-apps-read-the-web-like-humans/). _Gigaom_. Retrieved March 14, 2013.`{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web "Template:Cite web")}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service")) 4. [1](#cite_ref-refname3_4-0) [2](#cite_ref-refname3_4-1) ["Investors Back Diffbot's Visual Learning Robot for Web Content"](https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/05/31/investors-back-diffbots-visual-learning-robot-for-web-content). The Wall Street Journal. May 31, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013. 5. [1](#cite_ref-refname4_5-0) [2](#cite_ref-refname4_5-1) ["DiffBot's new API brilliantly reveals what's hiding behind any link"](https://venturebeat.com/2012/08/16/diffbot-api-links). August 16, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013. 6. [↑](#cite_ref-refname5_6-0) ["Twitter: A Day in the Life"](http://mashable.com/2012/08/16/twitter-day-in-the-life-infographic/). _[Mashable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashable "Mashable")_. August 16, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013. 7. [↑](#cite_ref-7) ["New AI Tool Maps the Families of the Bible, A Song of Ice and Fire"](https://www.datanami.com/2020/09/17/new-ai-tool-maps-the-families-of-the-bible-a-song-of-ice-and-fire/). _Datanami_. 2020-09-17. Retrieved 2022-06-08. 8. [↑](#cite_ref-8) Peter, Alex. ["Web Scraping"](https://it-s.com/our-services/data-tranformation-services/web-scraping-services/). Retrieved 28 March 2021. 9. [↑](#cite_ref-refname6_9-0) ["Diffbot raises $2 million to help apps understand the open, unstructured web"](https://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3054444/diffbot-raises-2-million-apps-open-web). TheVerge. May 31, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013. 10. [↑](#cite_ref-refname9_10-0) ["Diffbot Bests Google's Knowledge Graph To Feed The Need For Structured Data"](https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2015/06/04/diffbot-bests-googles-knowledge-graph-to-feed-the-need-for-structured-data/). _Forbes_. June 4, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015. - [Official website](http://diffbot.com/) - [Knowledge Graph](https://www.hyro.ai/glossary/knowledge-graph) - [HelloGPT AI Tools](https://hellogpt.me/)