Diffbot Article Extraction via Locus x402

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Diffbot Article Extraction via Locus x402 is a paid API for AI agents from diffbot.x402.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.0042/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Extracts structured article data (title, author, text, tags, comments, NLP features) from any article URL using Diffbot's AI-powered parser, paid per-call via x402/USDC.

Price / call$0.0042

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How this service works

Web data extraction — articles, products, discussions, images, videos, and auto-detect.

Output

Returns a JSON object with structured article fields including title, author, date, full text, tags, linked images, and optionally discussion/comments threads and NLP-derived fields such as named entities, sentiment score, summary, facts, and categories. Also includes payment settlement details (USDC amount settled) and a request ID for status tracking.

Example use cases

News article structured data extraction

“Pull the full article text, author name, and publication date from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68942817, and return up to 20 tags with sentiment and a summary.”

Blog post comment thread mining

“Extract the article body and all the reader comments from https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/openai-gpt-5-preview/ — I want to see what people are saying in the discussion section.”

Multi-page investigative article ingestion

“Grab the full text of this multi-page article — https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-harlan-crow — combining all pages into one document, and run entity and facts NLP on it.”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://diffbot.x402.paywithlocus.com/diffbot/article?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need clean, structured article data (author, date, body text, tags, NLP features) from a specific article URL without building your own scraper. It is ideal for agents that process news, research, or blog content at scale and need per-call micropayment billing via USDC x402 rather than a subscription. Prefer it over generic HTML fetchers when you need Diffbot's AI layout detection, multi-page concatenation, or built-in NLP (entities, sentiment, summary).

Side effects

URL is paywalled or requires login — Diffbot may return partial or empty content
URL is not an article page — parser may misclassify or return sparse data
Timeout exceeded (default 30000ms) for slow or large pages — returns timeout error
Invalid or malformed URL — returns error with no data
NLP naturalLanguage parameter contains unsupported feature names — ignored or error returned
Payment failure via x402 — request not processed if USDC authorization fails

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
url	string
fields	string
paging	boolean
maxTags	number
timeout	number
discussion	boolean
naturalLanguage	string

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "data": {},
    "payment": {
      "scheme": "exact",
      "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
      "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
    },
    "request": {
      "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
    },
    "success": true
  }
}

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