# diffbot-places

> Claude/Codex skill by [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md) · 5 stars · Updated 2026-09-28

Search geographic entities in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph — cities, counties, subregions, states, provinces, countries, and points of interest — by population, prominence, containing place, or proximity. MUST USE skill when the answer is a list of places, or a sourced fact about one such as population; prefer it over recalling geographic figures. Triggers on: list cities, list countries, largest cities, biggest city in, population of, how many people live in, places in, cities near, states in, provinces, counties, regions, points of interest, landmarks.

Tags: agent-skills, ai, coding, crawler, entity-resolution, extract, extraction, knowledge, knowledge-graph, knowledge-graphs, research, skills, websearch, websearch-agent, websearch-api

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills /tmp/diffbot-skills && ln -s /tmp/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-places ~/.claude/skills/diffbot-places
```

## From README

Diffbot Place Search Find geographic entities in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph: cities, counties/subregions, states/provinces/regions, countries, and points of interest. This is type:Place DQL with the place hierarchy, the right sort keys, and the known gaps already mapped. Sibling note: /diffbot-people for people, /diffbot-organizations for companies located somewhere. Sibling skills: /diffbot-organizations (companies, including those located somewhere), /diffbot-news, /diffbot-deals. Use /diffbot-dql for anything outside these shapes. Workflow Step 1 — bootstrap Guard the venv creation as shown — re-running python3 -m venv on an existing venv overwrites activation scripts. init refreshes /.diffbot/ontology.json and verifies a token (DIFFBOTAPITOKEN env var, else /.diffbot/credentials). If neither exists the user must run: Tokens: https://app.diffbot.com/get-started/. Never echo the token. Step 2 — pick the right type Query the narrowest type that fits.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-places/
- GitHub: https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills
- Author: [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md)

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