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 discussion to process
fields	string[]	No	Used to specify optional fields to be returned by the Discussion API. See fields: https://www.diffbot.com/dev/docs/discussion/#fields
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.
maxPages	number|string	No	Set the maximum number of pages in a thread to automatically concatenate in a single response. Default = 1 (no concatenation). Set maxPages=all to retrieve all pages of a thread regardless of length. Each individual page will count as a separate API call.
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)
body	string	No	Optional HTML markup to pass as POST body
customJS	string	No	This functionality is currently in beta. See docs for details: https://docs.diffbot.com/docs/en/api-discussion#custom-javascript
customHeaders	object	No	This functionality is currently in beta. See docs for details: https://docs.diffbot.com/docs/en/api-discussion#custom-headers