Semrush Website Traffic Scraper – Similarweb Alternative

Get the traffic report of any website from Semrush's public pages: monthly visits with a 6‑month history, global / country / industry rank, engagement, top countries, traffic sources, AI traffic (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude…), organic keywords, backlinks, Authority Score and closest competitors. Or pull the 100 most visited websites of any country and industry.

No Semrush account, no API key, no login. Exact numbers (2,324,470,712 visits, not "2.32B").

Why this one

	This Actor	Typical Semrush / Similarweb scrapers
Numbers	exact, read from the page data	often rounded text ("2.32B")
History	6 months of visits, desktop/mobile, search traffic, backlinks, AI traffic	current month only
AI traffic	ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity… with history	rarely
Competitors	up to 7 closest (when Semrush publishes them), each with visits, ranks, Authority Score	names only
Top websites	100 per country (240) × industry (111)	—
Not found / errors	never charged	charged
Price	$5 per 1,000 on the free plan, $2.50–3 on paid plans	from $1 to $20 per 1,000 (see the comparison below)

Input examples

Traffic reports (paste domains or URLs — www., paths and duplicates are handled):

{ "domains": ["notion.so", "https://www.canva.com/pricing", "shopify.com"] }

With the 7 closest competitors:

{ "domains": ["allbirds.com"], "includeCompetitors": true }

The 100 most visited retail websites in the UK, each with its full report:

{ "mode": "top", "topCountry": "gb", "topCategory": "retail", "topDetails": true }

Output example (shortened)

{
  "domain": "notion.so",
  "status": "ok",
  "dataMonth": "2026-09",
  "visits": 37639091,
  "visitsChangePercent": 16.85,
  "globalRank": 1222,
  "countryRank": { "country": "US", "countryName": "United States", "rank": 1594 },
  "pagesPerVisit": 2.88,
  "avgVisitDurationSeconds": 718,
  "bounceRatePercent": 77.92,
  "desktopSharePercent": 69.1,
  "visitsHistory": [{ "month": "2026-09", "visits": 37639091, "desktopVisits": 26006797, "mobileVisits": 11632294 }],
  "topCountries": [{ "country": "US", "countryName": "United States", "visits": 7179042, "sharePercent": 19.07 }],
  "trafficSources": [{ "source": "Direct", "sharePercent": 78.83, "visits": 20500013 }, { "source": "Google organic", "host": "google.com", "sharePercent": 0.98 }],
  "aiTraffic": [{ "platform": "ChatGPT", "visits": 148952, "history": [{ "month": "2026-09", "visits": 148952 }] }],
  "organicSearchTraffic": 60218,
  "topKeywords": [{ "keyword": "notion", "position": 20, "searchVolume": 673000, "cpc": 3.25, "intent": ["navigational"] }],
  "authorityScore": 58,
  "backlinks": 26249180,
  "referringDomains": 180050,
  "googlePenaltyRisk": "Low",
  "competitors": [],
  "semrushUrl": "https://www.semrush.com/website/notion.so/overview/"
}

competitors is empty for notion.so because Semrush publishes no competitors page for it; for canva.com the same run returned 7, e.g.:

[
  { "domain": "picsart.com", "visits": 31517810, "visitsChangePercent": 26.26, "globalRank": 1510, "authorityScore": 82, "pagesPerVisit": 3.41, "avgVisitDurationSeconds": 425, "bounceRatePercent": 48.33 },
  { "domain": "adobe.com", "brandName": "Adobe", "visits": 605725665, "visitsChangePercent": 21.59, "globalRank": 57, "category": "Photography", "categoryRank": 1, "authorityScore": 100 }
]

visits is worldwide. In "Top websites" mode, visitsInTopCountry gives the visits in the chosen country (first 20 rows).

Who this is not for

• You need data for every domain on your list. About 1 in 4 domains has no public Semrush page (free not_found), sometimes even large sites.
• You need daily or weekly traffic. Semrush updates these pages monthly (dataMonth).
• You need the site's real analytics. These are Semrush's estimates.
• You need full Semrush keyword or backlink exports. Reports include the top keywords and backlink totals shown on the public page, not the full lists of a paid Semrush account.

What's new

• 3 November 2026 — Clearer not_found message (Semrush publishes pages for many but not all websites, including some large ones). In-depth documentation with real runs, coverage test and an honest price comparison.
• 1 November 2026 — FAQ, use cases and AI-agent (MCP) documentation.
• 24 October 2026 — Output schema; prices for paid plans; internationalised domains (IDN / punycode) and IP addresses rejected with a clear warning; lower memory use.
• 24 October 2026 — First release: domain reports with 6-month history, AI traffic, keywords, backlinks, competitors, and top-100 rankings by country and industry.

Use cases

• Competitor research: traffic, sources and keywords of every competitor in one table.
• Lead qualification: score prospects by real website traffic and authority.
• Market maps: the top 100 sites of an industry in any country.
• AI visibility: how much traffic ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude send to a site, month by month.
• Investors & M&A: 6‑month traffic trend of a target.

Pricing

Apify plan	Domain report (competitors included)	"Top websites" row without full report
Free	$5.00 per 1,000	$1.00 per 1,000
Starter	$3.00	$0.80
Scale	$2.80	$0.70
Business and higher	$2.50	$0.60

Domains without a Semrush page and errors are not charged.

Real runs — 3 November 2026

Job	Result	Run time	Price (free plan)
notion.so, canva.com, shopify.com, stripe.com, apify.com + competitors	4 full reports (canva.com 1.07 B visits/month, shopify.com 498 M, stripe.com 233 M, notion.so 37.6 M); apify.com has no public Semrush page → free not_found row; competitors: canva 7, shopify 5, stripe 3, notion none published	33 s	$0.020
Top 20 retail websites in the UK, full reports	20 reports (etsy.com, argos.co.uk, ebay.co.uk, amazon.co.uk, temu.com…)	38 s	$0.100

Which domains are covered?

Semrush publishes free public traffic pages for many but not all websites — including some large ones. In a test of 20 well-known SaaS domains on 3 November 2026, 15 had a page (n8n.io, airtable.com, ahrefs.com, mailchimp.com, miro.com, calendly.com…) and 5 had none (zapier.com, webflow.com, framer.com, loom.com, tally.so). Uncovered domains return status: "not_found" and are free, so you can safely paste long lists.

Price compared with other website-traffic Actors — 31 October 2026

Actor (data source)	Monthly users (31 Oct)	Listed price per 1,000 results
tri_angle/fast-similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	669	$2.00
tri_angle/similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	622	$13.00
curious_coder/similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	359	$3.00
pro100chok/similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	258	$5.00
radeance/similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	208	$8.00
memo23/similarweb-scraper (Similarweb)	153	$0.99
burbn/similarweb-scraper-pro (Similarweb)	82	$20.00
This Actor (Semrush)	—	$5.00 free plan · $2.50–3.00 paid plans

Semrush and Similarweb estimate traffic differently; many teams use both. What sets this Actor apart is the depth of each report (6-month history, AI traffic, keywords, backlinks, competitors) — compare the fields, not only the price.

Good to know

• Data comes from Semrush's free public "Website traffic" pages, updated monthly (dataMonth).
• Semrush publishes public pages for many but not all websites (about 3 in 4 in our test of 20 SaaS domains): others return status: "not_found" (free). For a subdomain without its own page (e.g. docs.google.com), the main domain is used and a note says so.
• Estimates are Semrush's, not the site's own analytics.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

• What the tool does: returns Semrush's public traffic report for each domain, or the top-100 websites of a country and industry.
• Minimal input: {"domains": ["<domain>"]} or {"mode": "top", "topCountry": "us", "topCategory": "all"}.
• Output contract: one object per domain with status = ok | not_found; not_found rows contain no data and are free.
• Freshness: dataMonth tells which month the estimates describe.
• Cost guard: domain reports × $0.005 on the free plan ($0.0025–0.003 on paid plans).

Use with AI agents (MCP)

You can call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), using the Actor ID rt-solutions/semrush-website-traffic-scraper. For example: "Compare the monthly visits, traffic sources and AI traffic of notion.so, canva.com and shopify.com over the last 6 months." It also works through the Apify API, Make, n8n and Zapier.

FAQ

How do I check a website's traffic without a Semrush account? Paste the domains or URLs and click Start. The Actor reads Semrush's free public "Website traffic" pages — no Semrush account, no API key, no login.

How much does it cost to get traffic data for 10,000 websites? $50 on the free plan ($5 per 1,000), $30 on Starter, $28 on Scale and $25 on Business, competitors included. Domains without a Semrush page and errors are not charged. "Top websites" rows without full reports cost $10 per 10,000.

Why does my domain return not_found? Semrush publishes free public pages for many but not all websites — some large sites (zapier.com, webflow.com in our 3 November test) have none. Those rows are free. For a subdomain without its own page, the main domain is used and a note says so.

How accurate are the numbers? They are Semrush's estimates, not the site's own analytics — but they are the exact figures from the page data, not rounded text.

Can I track a site's traffic over time? Each report already includes a 6-month history. The data is updated monthly (dataMonth), so a monthly scheduled run builds a longer history.

Can I see how much traffic ChatGPT sends to a website? Yes — aiTraffic lists visits from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and others, with their monthly history.

Can I export to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets? Yes — export the dataset to JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to Google Sheets through Apify integrations.

Run health

• 3 November 2026: 3 runs, 29 domains, 0 errors, 0 failed runs (uncovered domains returned free not_found rows).

Your feedback

Missing a field or found a wrong value? Open an issue in the Issues tab — we answer fast and ship fixes (see "What's new"). If the Actor saved you time, a short review helps other marketers and analysts find it.

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