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Event API (beta)

Isaac edited this page Apr 3, 2022 · 2 revisions

Diffbot documentation:

https://docs.diffbot.com/docs/en/api-event

Usage

  let evt = await diffbot.event({
    url: 'https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/relit-2020-bring-your-brave-tickets-109259768910',
    proxy: '168.212.226.204',
    body: 'optional-html-post-body',
  });
  console.log(evt.objects[0].venue);
  console.log(evt.objects[0].description);

Full list of supported parameters:

Param Type Required Description
url string Yes Web page URL of the event to process
fields string[] No Used to specify optional fields to be returned by the Event API. See fields: https://docs.diffbot.com/docs/en/api-event
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)
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-event#custom-javascript
customHeaders object No This functionality is currently in beta. See docs for details: https://docs.diffbot.com/docs/en/api-event#custom-headers
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