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Diffbot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Diffbot is an intelligent web crawler used to understand, aggregate, and ultimately sell structured website data for real-time monitoring and training other AI models.

Category
AI Crawler
Type
AI Assistant
Part of Diffbot scraping network
Centinel Analytica · April 10, 2026

Diffbot is an intelligent web crawler used to understand, aggregate, and ultimately sell structured website data for real-time monitoring and training other AI models.

Operator: Diffbot | Type: AI Assistant | Category: AI Crawler

Diffbot is classified as an AI crawler. It accesses your content for AI-related purposes. If you want to protect your content from being used without compensation, consider blocking or monetizing access from this crawler with Centinel.

Centinel automatically detects Diffbot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.

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