diff --git a/extras/diff_bot.rb b/extras/diff_bot.rb
index 66a508b4..7a67c0c8 100644
--- a/extras/diff_bot.rb
+++ b/extras/diff_bot.rb
@@ -1,26 +1,15 @@
 # typed: false
 
 class DiffBot
-  cattr_accessor :DIFFBOT_API_KEY
-
-  # this needs to be overridden in config/initializers/production.rb
-  @@DIFFBOT_API_KEY = nil
-
-  DIFFBOT_API_URL = "http://www.diffbot.com/api/article".freeze
+  # source https://tildegit.org/ben/tilde/src/branch/master/fulltext/fulltext.php
+  API_URL = "https://tilde.team/~ben/fulltext/fulltext.php".freeze
 
   def self.get_story_text(story)
-    if !@@DIFFBOT_API_KEY
-      return
-    end
-
-    return "" if story.url.nil?
-
-    # XXX: diffbot tries to read pdfs as text, so disable for now
-    if /\.pdf$/i.match?(story.url.to_s)
+    if story.url.to_s.match(/\.pdf$/i)
       return nil
     end
 
-    db_url = "#{DIFFBOT_API_URL}?token=#{@@DIFFBOT_API_KEY}&url=#{CGI.escape(story.url)}"
+    db_url = "#{API_URL}?url=#{CGI.escape(story.url)}"
 
     begin
       s = Sponge.new
@@ -28,16 +17,7 @@ class DiffBot
       s.timeout = 45
       res = s.fetch(db_url).body
       if res.present?
-        j = JSON.parse(res)
-
-        # turn newlines into double newlines, so they become paragraphs
-        j["text"] = j["text"].to_s.gsub("\n", "\n\n")
-
-        while j["text"].include?("\n\n\n")
-          j["text"].gsub!("\n\n\n", "\n\n")
-        end
-
-        return j["text"]
+        return res
       end
     rescue => e
       Rails.logger.error "error fetching #{db_url} #{e.backtrace.first} #{e.message}"