Discussion API

Diffbot documentation:

https://www.diffbot.com/dev/docs/discussion/

Usage

  let discussion = await diffbot.discussion({
    url: 'https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400240/epic-apple-ruling-unreal-engine-fortnite-temporary-restraining-order',
    body: 'optional-html-post-body',
  });
  console.log(discussion.objects[0].title);
  console.log(discussion.objects[0].posts);
  console.log(discussion.objects[0].participants);
  console.log(discussion.objects[0].sentiment);

Full list of supported parameters:

Param	Type	Required	Description
url	string	Yes	Web page URL of the article to process (required unless posting plain text)
fields	string[]	No	Used to specify optional fields to be returned by the Article API.
paging	boolean	No	Pass paging=false to disable automatic concatenation of multiple-page articles. (By default, Diffbot will concatenate up to 20 pages of a single article.)
maxTags	number	No	Set the maximum number of automatically-generated tags to return. By default a maximum of ten tags will be returned.
tagConfidence	number	No	Set the minimum relevance score of tags to return, between 0.0 and 1.0. By default only tags with a score equal to or above 0.5 will be returned.
discussion	boolean	No	Pass discussion=false to disable automatic extraction of article comments.
timeout	number	No	Sets a value in milliseconds to wait for the retrieval/fetch of content from the requested URL. The default timeout for the third-party response is 30 seconds (30000).
callback	string	No	Use for jsonp requests. Needed for cross-domain ajax.
proxy	string	No	Used to specify the IP address of a custom proxy that will be used to fetch the target page, instead of Diffbot's default IPs/proxies. (Ex: &proxy=168.212.226.204)
proxyAuth	string	No	Used to specify the authentication parameters that will be used with the proxy specified in the &proxy parameter. (Ex: &proxyAuth=username:password)
naturalLanguage	string[]	No	Used to request the output of the Diffbot Natural Language API in the field naturalLanguage. Example: &naturalLanguage=entities,facts,categories,sentiment.
body	string	No	Optional HTML markup to pass as POST body