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Diffbot bulk download: CSV only carries top-level fields, use type=urls for a URL report

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When you need nested extracted fields, download as JSON, not CSV, or you will lose the nested data.

When you need nested extracted fields, download as JSON, not CSV, or you will lose the nested data. Use type=urls first to audit what the crawl actually fetched before pulling the full payload. Use num to sanity check a subset before downloading everything.

Context: Official docs (Diffbot bulk API data docs): documents that downloading crawl results as CSV only includes top-level fields (nested data is dropped), that type=urls returns a URL report instead of content, and that num lets you pull a subset of results.

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