diffbot-apis-client

A small Java client for the DiffbotArticle API — point it at a web page and get back the extracted article as a typed object rather than raw HTML.

Archived. Written in 2014 against Diffbot API v2, which has since been superseded. Kept as a reference for the shape rather than something to depend on.

Usage

DiffbotApiapi = newDiffbotApiImpl();
ArticleResponsearticle = api.article(token, "http://example.com/some-story");
System.out.println(article.getTitle());
System.out.println(article.getText());

token is your Diffbot API token.

What's inside

Four classes, deliberately:

Class	Role
DiffbotApi	Interface — one method, article(token, url), plus the base URL constant
DiffbotApiImpl	Builds the request URL, calls it, deserialises the JSON with Gson
HttpClient	Plain GET over HttpURLConnection
ArticleResponse	The response mapped to fields

Only the Article endpoint is covered. Diffbot offers others — Frontpage, Product, Image — and adding one means a method on the interface plus a matching response model; the client was structured with that in mind, but the rest were never needed.

Build

mvn package

Depends on Gson. Tests in DiffbotApiTest call the live API, so they need a valid token.