An MCP server that extracts information from web pages, searches and crawls websites, and queries the Diffbot Knowledge Graph. A knowledge graph is a database linking information about entities such as companies, people, news, places, and deals.

Use it to collect page content, search or crawl websites, or look up organizations, people, news, places, and deals.

It brings web research and structured information into an AI-compatible tool instead of requiring separate manual searches. It needs a Diffbot API token unless one is already configured.

diffbot-mcp — Plugin for Gemini CLI by diffbot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-mcp

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

diffbot-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

The scan reads gemini-extension.json. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install_links.py, scripts/sync_version.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

gemini-extension.json · 20 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "diffbot-mcp",
  "version": "0.2.2",
  "description": "Web knowledge fetching tools for your agent.",
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "Diffbot API token",
      "description": "A Diffbot API token. Get a free one at https://app.diffbot.com/get-started. Leave blank to use DIFFBOT_API_TOKEN from ~/.diffbot/credentials.",
      "envVar": "DIFFBOT_TOKEN",
      "sensitive": true
    }
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "diffbot": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "${extensionPath}", "diffbot-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside gemini-extension.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday Changed 13bf3e34e207
2d ago First seen · 20 lines scan A 6b6ac66c975c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diffbot-mcp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository diffbot/diffbot-mcp (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-11.

Research crawler crawling entity-resolution knowledge-graph mcp mcp-server

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