Diffbot Web Search API
Search Diffbot's own web index — the largest independently crawled index outside Google and Bing, over 150TB. Candidates are retrieved and reranked by a cross-encoder trained to favour factual relevance over popularity and primary sources over secondary ones, and the most relevant chunk of each page is returned inline for citation. This is the one Diffbot surface that authenticates with an Authorization Bearer header rather than a token query parameter.
Diffbot Web Search API is one of 10 APIs that Diffbot publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Search, Web, Index, and Retrieval. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.
This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://llm.diffbot.com/api/v1/web_search.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Diffbot Web Search API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (Authorization).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Authorization— Diffbot API Token
Paths & Operations 2
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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