Diffbot
Diffbot · Another search engine or assistant
Diffbot crawls to build a general search engine for its Knowledge Graph and web search, and says this crawl is not used for AI training. It follows robots.txt and Crawl-delay by default, but can override them when a Diffbot customer has an agreement with the site.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Diffbot
- What it is for
- It crawls for a search engine or assistant the score does not measure.
- Assistant it feeds
- None of the assistants we measure
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- No. It crawls for search or answers, but not for any of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- www.diffbot.com/docs/crawl/faq/robots-txt
If you block it
You ask for your pages to be left out of the service it crawls for. Your score does not change: it belongs to none of the assistants we measure.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Diffbot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Diffbot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Diffbot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.