Directory / AI crawlers

Diffbot

Listed only

Diffbot's general-purpose web crawler, used to build its Knowledge Graph and power its structured-extraction APIs. Diffbot documents robots.txt behavior but publishes no IP list, ASN, or reverse-DNS pattern.

Operated by Diffbot · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexDiffbot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729; Diffbot/0.1; +http://www.diffbot.com)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Diffbot)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.