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Connectors / Data and analytics · HTTP Connector
Automate Diffbot with Tray.ai
Create a crawl and create a bulk job in Diffbot. Connect Diffbot to the rest of your data and analytics stack with Tray.ai.
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What can you do with Diffbot on Tray.ai?
Diffbot turns web pages into structured data, extracting articles, products and discussions, crawling whole sites and querying its web-wide Knowledge Graph. Tray.ai connects to Diffbot through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the Diffbot API alongside the rest of your stack.
- Extract a product from competitor pages each day and load prices into your data warehouse.
- Extract an article from each new link your team shares and store the text in your knowledge base.
- Create a crawl of a partner site and send the results to your analytics database.
- Enhance an entity for each new account in your CRM to fill in company details.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- An API key in the query string
- Base URL
- https://api.diffbot.com/v3
Set it up
Connect Diffbot to Tray.ai
Each step uses Diffbot's own API details, from its documentation.
Step 1
Save Diffbot's API key
Save the key as a Tray.ai authentication and add it to the query string from $.auth, so it never sits in the workflow itself.
Step 2
Point the HTTP Client at the API
Add an HTTP Client step and use https://api.diffbot.com/v3 as the base URL. Or paste a cURL example from Diffbot's API docs, and Tray.ai fills in the method, URL, and headers.
Step 3
Start with “Get a crawl job”
It's one of 14 documented actions, under Crawl jobs. The response comes back as data the next step can map into your other apps.
Step 4
Hand it to an AI agent
Wrap “Analyze a page” and “Extract an article” in workflows, and Tray.ai's Agent Gateway for MCP publishes them as governed tools Claude and other AI agents can call.
What the Diffbot API covers
4 resources and 14 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow. Connecting it takes a few clicks: here's how.
Extract
- Analyze a page
- Extract an article
- Extract a product
- Extract a discussion
Crawl jobs
- Create a crawl
- Get a crawl job
- Pause a crawl
- Delete a crawl
- Retrieve crawl data
Bulk jobs
- Create a bulk job
- Get a bulk job
- Retrieve bulk job data
Knowledge Graph
- Search with DQL
- Enhance an entity
Checked against Diffbot's own documentation on 2026-10-22
How Tray.ai makes this work
Diffbot plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
Intelligent Integration
Integrate and automate across 9,000+ apps, databases, APIs, and services with visual workflows, error handling, and observability.
Learn more →Agent Builder
Build AI agents that read, write, and take action in Diffbot — with guardrails, audit, and human-in-the-loop.
Learn more →Agent Gateway for MCP
Expose Diffbot actions as governed MCP tools — observable, rate-limited, authenticated.
Learn more →Tray Helix
Build apps on Diffbot data with your AI assistant, then deploy, run, and govern them on Tray.ai.
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in Diffbot?
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The Diffbot API documents 14 actions across 4 resources (Extract, Crawl jobs, Bulk jobs, Knowledge Graph). For example: Analyze a page; Create a crawl; Create a bulk job. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with Diffbot?
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The Diffbot API uses an API key in the query string. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
See Diffbot working against your stack.
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