A Clojure library for working with the Diffbot API v2.
Add [diffbot/diffbot "0.1.0"] to your Leiningen project :dependencies.
All function calls require a Diffbot API token (sign up to get one) and the url you want to parse. The Diffbot responses are parsed and returned as Clojure maps.
Diffbot has four API calls that can be accessed by functions in the diffbot.core namespace, these are article, frontpage, product and image and correspond to the identically name Diffbot APIs.
Require the functions in the REPL:
user> (require '[diffbot.core :refer [article frontpage product image]])Require in your namespace
(ns app.core
(:require [diffbot.core :refer [article frontpage product image]]))An example article response, pretty printed for readability:
user> (article token "http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/")
{:html
"<div><p>Diffbot’s human wranglers are proud today to announce the release of our newest product: an API for… products!</p><p>The <a href=\"http://www.diffbot.com/products/automatic/product\" title=\"Diffbot's Product API\">Product API</a> can be used for extracting clean, structured data from any e-commerce product page. It automatically makes available all the product data you’d expect: price, discount/savings amount, shipping cost, product description, any relevant product images, SKU and/or other product IDs.</p><p>Even cooler: pair the Product API with <a href=\"http://www.diffbot.com/products/crawlbot\" title=\"Crawlbot from Diffbot\">Crawlbot</a>, our intelligent site-spidering tool, and let Diffbot determine which pages are products, then automatically structure the entire catalog. Here’s a quick demonstration of Crawlbot at work:</p><p>We’ve developed the Product API over the course of two years, building upon our core vision technology that&rsquo
;s extracted structured data from billions of web pages, and training our machine learning systems using data from tens of thousands of unique shopping sites. We can’t wait for you to try it out.</p><p>What are you waiting for? Check out the <a href=\"http://www.diffbot.com/products/automatic/product\" title=\"Diffbot's Product API\">Product API documentation</a> and dive on in! If you need a token, check out our <a href=\"http://www.diffbot.com/pricing\">pricing and plans</a> (including our Free plan).</p><p>Questions? Hit us up at <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>.</p></div>",
:text
"Diffbot’s human wranglers are proud today to announce the release of our newest product: an API for… products!\nThe Product API can be used for extracting clean, structured data from any e-commerce product page. It automatically makes available all the product data you’d expect: price, discount/savings amount, shipping cost, product description, any relevant product images, SKU and/or o
ther product IDs.\nEven cooler: pair the Product API with Crawlbot , our intelligent site-spidering tool, and let Diffbot determine which pages are products, then automatically structure the entire catalog. Here’s a quick demonstration of Crawlbot at work:\nWe’ve developed the Product API over the course of two years, building upon our core vision technology that’s extracted structured data from billions of web pages, and training our machine learning systems using data from tens of thousands of unique shopping sites. We can’t wait for you to try it out.\nWhat are you waiting for? Check out the Product API documentation and dive on in! If you need a token, check out our pricing and plans (including our Free plan).\nQuestions? Hit us up at [email protected] .",
:human_language "en",
:date "Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:00:00 GMT",
:supertags
[{:depth 0.6470588235294117,
:senseRank 3,
:score 0.7,
:name "Online game",
:positions [[49 55]],
:categories
{:2087401 "Online games", :24212208 "Video game
terminology"},
:type 1,
:contentMatch 0.6543209876543209,
:variety 0.6421052631578947,
:id 1050944}
{:depth 0.47058823529411764,
:senseRank 1,
:score 0.6,
:name "Intrusion detection system",
:positions [[458 461]],
:categories {:30869856 "Intrusion detection systems"},
:type 1,
:contentMatch 0.6543209876543209,
:variety 0.7789473684210526,
:id 113021}],
:author "John Davi",
:cid 1227573853,
:title "Diffbot’s New Product API Teaches Robots to Shop Online",
:date_created "Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:43:45 PST",
:url "http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/",
:categories
{:sports 0.004774440201028423,
:disaster_accident 0.005714285714285713,
:health_medical_pharma 0.14785714285714283,
:technology_internet 0.38092731007413366,
:law_crime 0.05547619047619047,
:education 0.013333333333333332,
:other 0.03714285714285714,
:environment 0.04380901027166066,
:politics 0.03619047619047619,
:business_finance 0.00857142857142857,
:socialissues 0.06428571428571428,
:labor 0.061428571428571416,
:humaninterest 0.059285714285714275,
:religion_belief 0.014285714285714284,
:entertainment_culture 0.012142857142857141,
:war_conflict 0.0019178108817486923,
:weather 0.014285714285714284,
:hospitality_recreation 0.03857142857142856},
:type "article"}There are three optional parameters that can be passed as keyword arguments
timeoutSet a timeout in ms, the default is no timeoutcallbackA callback function for jsonp requests.fieldsA list of fields that should be returned in the response.
The available fields deponds on the API that is being called, for full reference see the Diffbot API documentation for article, frontpage, product and image.
user> (article token
"http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/"
:timeout 5000
:fields ["meta", "querystring", "images(*)"])To analyze urls that are not publicly available, the content can be specified explicitly using the optional :content keyword argument.
user> (article token
"http://www.diffbot.com/our-apis/article"
:content "Now is the time for all good robots to come to the aid of their-- oh never mind, run!")
{:author "", :text "Now is the time for all good robots to come to the aid of their-- oh never mind, run!", :title "Now is the time for all good robots to come to the aid of their-- oh never mind, run!", :html "<div><body>Now is the time for all good robots to come to the aid of their-- oh never mind, run!\n</body></div>", :type "article", :url "http://www.diffbot.com/our-apis/article"}The Diffbot (Crawlbot) allows jobs to be set up and triggered for crawling a complete website. The Crawlbot functionality is provided in the diffbot.crawlbot namespace.
Require the functions in the REPL:
user> (require '[diffbot.crawlbot :refer [make-crawl get-crawl pause resume restart delete get-crawl get-crawl-data get-crawl-urls]])Require in your namespace
(ns app.core
(:require [diffbot.crawlbot :refer [make-crawl get-crawl pause resume restart delete get-crawl get-crawl-data get-crawl-urls]]))Create a new crawl with make-crawl, the function allows you to give the crawl a name, the name acts as an ID, so keep hold of it, it will be needed for further operations.
The other arguments are the crawl type, a list of urls to crawl and your API token.
user> (pprint (diffbot.crawlbot/make-crawl "crawlName" "article" ["http://google.com"] token))
{:response "Successfully added urls for spidering.",
:jobs
[{:maxRounds -1,
:pageProcessAttempts 0,
:downloadJson
"http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl/download/[tokenredacted]-crawlName_data.json",
:urlProcessRegEx "",
:pageProcessPattern "",
:urlsHarvested 0,
:pageCrawlSuccesses 0,
:urlCrawlPattern "",
:roundStartTime 0,
:downloadUrls
"http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl/download/[tokenredacted]-crawlName_urls.csv",
:name "crawlName",
:onlyProcessIfNew 1,
:jobStatus {:status 0, :message "Job is initializing."},
:currentTime 1389637774,
:pageCrawlAttempts 0,
:sentJobDoneNotification 0,
:notifyWebhook "",
:maxToCrawl 100000,
:crawlDelay 0.25,
:type "crawl",
:notifyEmail "",
:restrictDomain 1,
:objectsFound 0,
:seeds "http://google.com",
:urlCrawlRegEx "",
:apiUrl "http://api.diffbot.com/v2/article",
:pageProcessSuccesses 0,
:roundsCompleted 0,
:repeat 0.0,
:maxToProcess 100000,
:urlProcessPattern
"",
:obeyRobots 1}]}As with the analyze APIs, optional parameters can also be passed through. Please refer to the Crawlbot API documentation for a full list.
The arguments should be passed in as keywork arguments, for example
(make-crawl "crawlName" "article" ["http://google.com"] token :url-crawl-pattern ["product" "!notthis"] :max-to-crawl 100)
; resolves to http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl?token=[redacted]&apiUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.diffbot.com%2Fv2%2Farticle&seeds=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&name=crawlName&urlCrawlPattern=product||!notthis&maxToCrawl=100When passing through the extra parameters we need to differentiate between those destined for the Crawlbot API and those destinted for the API that the crawlbot is crawling.
There is a special key :analyze-opts that will carry a map of configuration through to the analyze url
(make-crawl "crawlName" "article" ["http://google.com"] token :analyze-opts {:fields ["meta"] :callback "cb"} :url-crawl-pattern ["product" "!notthis"] :max-to-crawl 100)
; resolves to http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl?token=[redacted]&apiUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.diffbot.com%2Fv2%2Farticle%26fields%3Dmeta%26callback%3Dcb&seeds=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&name=crawlName&urlCrawlPattern=product||!notthis&maxToCrawl=100get-crawl will give you details of job progress. An optional job name will refine the response to just one job.
(diffbot.crawlbot/get-crawl token) ;; all jobs
(diffbot.crawlbot/get-crawl job-name token) ;; one jobThe response from both calls is in this format,
{:jobs
[{:maxRounds -1,
:pageProcessAttempts 135,
:downloadJson
"http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl/download/[tokenredacted]-crawlName_data.json",
:urlProcessRegEx "",
:pageProcessPattern "",
:urlsHarvested 6120,
:pageCrawlSuccesses 189,
:urlCrawlPattern "product||!notthis",
:roundStartTime 0,
:downloadUrls
"http://api.diffbot.com/v2/crawl/download/[tokenredacted]-crawlName_urls.csv",
:name "crawlName",
:onlyProcessIfNew 1,
:jobStatus
{:status 2, :message "Job has reached maxToCrawl limit."},
:currentTime 1389638848,
:pageCrawlAttempts 190,
:sentJobDoneNotification 1,
:notifyWebhook "",
:maxToCrawl 100,
:crawlDelay 0.25,
:type "crawl",
:notifyEmail "",
:restrictDomain 1,
:objectsFound 126,
:seeds "http://google.com",
:urlCrawlRegEx "",
:apiUrl "http://api.diffbot.com/v2/article&fields=meta&callback=cb",
:pageProcessSuccesses 126,
:roundsCompleted 0,
:repeat 0.0,
:maxToProcess 100000,
:urlProcessPattern "",
:obeyRobots 1}]}Crawl jobs can be paused and resumed, as well as restarted from scratch and deleted. There are simple functions for these requests that all follow the same signature format of (fn-name job-name token).
(pause crawl-name token)
(resume crawl-name token)
(restart crawl-name token)
(delete crawl-name token)Crawlbot exposes crawl job data as json and a list of visited urls as csv. Again, these calls require a job name and a token.
(get-crawl-data crawl-name token)
(get-crawl-urls crawl-name token)This library delegates to clj-http to make http requests, configuration can be passed directly through using a :req keyword argument.
As an example, to include the entire response in exception cases forward through the following:
user> (article token
"http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/"
:req {:throw-entire-message? true})clj-http throws Slingshot stones on exception cases, these can be caught and matched against.
(try+
(article token "http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/")
(catch [:status 500] e
;handle 500
)
(catch [:status 401]
; handle auth error
)
)Alternatively, on exceptional cases the response body can be returned directly by instructing clj-http not to throw exceptions.
(article token
"http://blog.diffbot.com/diffbots-new-product-api-teaches-robots-to-shop-online/"
:req {:throw-exceptions false})-Initial commit by Dan Midwood-