How to connect Diffbot to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Diffbot account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to extract specs and reviews from a product page, summarize key details from a news article URL, list all bulk data extraction jobs for your account, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Diffbot to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Diffbot account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Diffbot or give it any Diffbot-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Extract specs and reviews from a product page"
  • "Summarize key details from a news article URL"
  • "List all bulk data extraction jobs for your account"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Diffbot account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Diffbot through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Diffbot MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Diffbot MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Diffbot account. It provides structured and secure access to web data extraction and analysis, so your agent can extract structured data from web pages, analyze content types, retrieve product details, manage bulk jobs, and search extracted datasets on your behalf.

  • Automatic content analysis and extraction: Let your agent analyze any web page and automatically extract structured data such as articles, products, events, images, or videos using AI-powered tools.
  • Article and discussion thread extraction: Effortlessly pull detailed metadata, authors, publication dates, and full discussion threads from news sites, blogs, forums, and comment sections.
  • Product and event data gathering: Instantly extract comprehensive product specifications, pricing, reviews, and event information including venues, dates, and descriptions from e-commerce or event pages.
  • Bulk job management and search: Enable your agent to list, monitor, and search across large-scale crawl or extraction jobs, making it easy to work with massive web data collections.
  • Account and usage insights: Retrieve your Diffbot account details, plan information, and usage statistics to stay on top of quotas and manage your web data operations efficiently.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Diffbot SearchTool to search data extracted by crawl or bulk jobs using dql queries.
Get Diffbot Account DetailsTool to retrieve account details, including plan information and usage statistics.
Diffbot AnalyzeTool to automatically determine a page's content type and route it to the appropriate extraction api.
Get Article DataTool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images.
Get Discussion ThreadTool to extract threads of content from forums, comment sections, and review pages.
Diffbot Get EventTool to extract event details from web pages.
Diffbot Get ImageTool to extract detailed information about images, including dimensions and recognition data.
Diffbot Get ProductTool to extract product information such as specifications, prices, availability, and reviews.
Get Video DataTool to extract information from videos, including titles, descriptions, and embedded html.
List Bulk JobsTool to list all bulk jobs associated with a specific token.
Resolve Lost IDTool to resolve lost ids in the knowledge graph.
Start Bulk JobTool to start a bulk extract job.
Start Crawl JobTool to spider a site for links and process them with the extract api into a single collection.
Stop Bulk JobTool to stop a running bulk job.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Diffbot MCP?

With a standalone Diffbot MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Diffbot tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Diffbot and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Diffbot tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Diffbot while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Diffbot scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Diffbot data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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