Diffbot

Excellent lead gen and wide knowledge search tools

What do you like best? We've been using both the Knowledge Graph and Enhance products. We use the Knowledge Graph for a wider search, finding individuals with certain job titles at certain orgs. Then we enrich those profiles with Enhance, together it's a great market research and lead enrichment set up. What do you dislike? We don't need all of Diffbot's offerings. (At least for now.) Their APIs and crawler aren't super applicable to our use case at the moment. With that said, seeing ...

Here's the deal... leave structuring web data to the PROS

What do you like best? Diffbot can augment data streams for SO MANY industries/use cases. Within ours we're able to keep track of news mentions on universities (from literally all over the web), and enrich leads for outreach. I'm sure there's a ton more we could be doing with Diffbot. But even with those uses the service has paid for itself many times over. It doesn't take many saved work hours to justify the $299 price tag... What do you dislike? To tap into the full power of ...

Game Changer for Cold Start Data Extraction

What do you like best? Diffbot's Extraction APIs and Crawlbot API provide an incredibly valuable, versatile, and simple to use pipeline for acquiring crucial information from web pages that may not have been visited before. The Analyze API makes it a snap to determine if the page in question is a product page or not, and the wide array of elements that Diffbot returns from most pages is exceptionally useful! What do you dislike? In our space, we tend to cover a large percentage of the ...

Extremely powerful API for text extraction

What do you like best? We have used Diffbot for several years, their API for text extraction is extremely powerful and accurate. It has become an important part of our data processing pipeline. Their API(s) allow us to convert unstructured HTML data into information we can ingest and store. Their support is also very responsive and has always provide us with value answers and feedback when needed. What do you dislike? They also provide with a web interface to define custom rules, ...

Powerful tool for exploring data!

What do you like best? Impressive database of information curated from across the web What do you dislike? There is a bit of a learning curve to the Diffbot Query Language, but it's worth it! Recommendations to others considering the product: Have a specific use case in mind. Their documentation is also very useful. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I'm using it to enrich a dataset, based on a smaller list of fields.