SEO Data Scraper for Ahrefs - Domain Rating, Traffic & Links

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Turn any list of domains into a clean SEO table built on Ahrefs' own numbers: Domain Rating, organic keyword count, and organic search traffic, traffic value in dollars and linking websites with their monthly change. You also get the site's title and description, its worldwide, country and category rank, the top 5 keywords, the top 5 countries, up to 5 organic competitors and the month-by-month history of traffic, traffic value and linking websites.

No Ahrefs subscription. No API key. No browser. It reads Ahrefs' free, public Top Websites pages (ahrefs.com/websites/<domain>, which Ahrefs redirects to ahrefstop.com), one page per domain.

What you get for every domain

Data	Included
Domain Rating (DR)	✅
Linking websites (referring domains)	✅ with monthly change and a monthly history
Organic search traffic	✅ with monthly change, rounded as Ahrefs prints it and exact
Traffic value in USD	✅ with monthly change, rounded and exact
Organic keyword count	✅
Site title and a description of the site	✅ (when Ahrefs hides one, siteTextNote says why)
Worldwide, country and category rank, each with its change	✅
Top 5 keywords with search volume, traffic, position and their changes	✅
Top 5 countries with exact visits, the previous month and share	✅
Up to 5 organic competitors with their traffic and page count	✅
Monthly organic traffic and traffic value since 2015 (about 137 months for established sites)	✅

57 fields per domain. Domains Ahrefs does not track are reported on the run card and never charged.

Pairs with Semrush

Ahrefs and Semrush measure different things, and serious research uses both. Ahrefs organicTraffic is organic search traffic only; the visits figure of Semrush Scraper counts all visits, so the two numbers differ by design. Run them side by side for Authority Score, bounce rate, organic vs paid traffic and AI-assistant referrals next to Ahrefs' DR and traffic value.

Use cases

• Link-building prospecting: filter a prospect list by DR and linking websites before outreach.
• SEO due diligence: traffic value, DR and the month-by-month traffic history before buying a site.
• Competitor benchmarking: DR, traffic, keyword counts and each site's own competitors side by side.
• Lead scoring: qualify agency prospects by real organic traffic, with a one-line description of what each site is.
• Portfolio monitoring: schedule weekly and watch DR, rank and linking websites move.

How to use

1. Add your domains under Domains (one per line), or paste or link a list under Import domains from a file.
2. Hit Start.
3. Export JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the dataset from the API. The Output tab has five views: Website metrics, Site profile, Top keywords & countries, Competitors and Exact monthly figures.

Input

{
    "domains": ["booking.com", "stripe.com"],
    "includeHistory": true,
    "includeKeywords": true,
    "includeCountries": true,
    "includeCompetitors": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

• domains: domains to analyse. Full URLs and Ahrefs links are reduced to the host name (www. removed; a site Ahrefs files under its www. host, such as www.nhs.uk, is still found). A subdomain stays as typed, because Ahrefs tracks some on their own (de.wikipedia.org).
• startUrls: paste Ahrefs URLs directly; also accepts the Console's Link remote text file option.
• urlsFromFile: paste a whole list, or give one link to a .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet, a Drive share or a key-value-store record. Blank lines, # comments, CRLF, UTF-8 or UTF-16 files, quotes and extra CSV columns all parse; duplicates are analysed once. A link that is not a text list (a PDF, an Excel file, a Sheet that is not shared publicly) is named on the run card, and no domain is billed for it.
• includeHistory / includeKeywords / includeCountries / includeCompetitors: toggle sections. All come from one page load, so turning one off makes the record leaner, not cheaper.
• outputFields (pick-list): tick exactly the fields you want; the dropdown lists all 57 with plain-English labels and their exact key.
• maxItems: the most domains to analyse in one run, in list order. Domains past it are named on the run card.
• proxyConfiguration: Apify datacenter proxy by default; a try that fails is repeated on a new proxy session. If the first 8 domains all fail without a single answer from Ahrefs (a custom proxy that does not work, for example), the run stops there and its card says why, so a broken proxy setting never runs through your whole list.

Output

One record per domain (type: "website"). Real record for booking.com, with the long lists cut to two entries:

{
    "type": "website",
    "domain": "booking.com",
    "url": "https://ahrefstop.com/websites/booking.com",
    "siteTitle": "Booking.com | Official site | The best prices for hotels",
    "siteDescription": "Booking.com is an online platform that aggregates lodging options worldwide, including hotels, apartments, hostels, and other accommodations...",
    "domainRating": 93,
    "linkingWebsites": 256200,
    "linkingWebsitesChange": 1200,
    "organicTraffic": 59800000,
    "organicTrafficChange": -18000000,
    "trafficValueUsd": 16200000,
    "trafficValueChangeUsd": -3700000,
    "organicKeywords": 3000000,
    "globalRank": 66,
    "dataMonth": "October 2026",
    "topCountry": "United States",
    "topCountryVisits": 5400000,
    "topCountryShare": 0.089,
    "topKeyword": "booking",
    "topKeywordPosition": 1,
    "topKeywordCountry": "United States",
    "topKeywordVisits": 553000,
    "competitors": ["expedia.com", "hotels.com", "travelweekly.com", "trivago.com", "tripadvisor.com"],
    "competitorCount": 5,
    "neighbourDomain": "grupogilleon.com",
    "neighbourRank": 65,
    "trafficHistory": [1877318, 2503155, 2707242],
    "trafficHistoryPoints": 137,
    "globalRankChange": -19,
    "category": "Travel",
    "categoryRank": 2,
    "categoryRankChange": -1,
    "organicTrafficExact": 59834661,
    "organicTrafficChangeExact": -18095444,
    "trafficValueUsdExact": 16162455,
    "linkingWebsitesExact": 256173,
    "topCountries": [
        { "country": "United States", "countryCode": "US", "visits": 5356596, "visitsPrevMonth": 5624370, "visitsChange": -267774, "share": 0.089 },
        { "country": "Italy", "countryCode": "IT", "visits": 5057773, "visitsPrevMonth": 7460016, "visitsChange": -2402243, "share": 0.084 }
    ],
    "topCountriesText": "United States 8.9%, Italy 8.4%, Germany 7.5%, Spain 6.5%, United Kingdom 5.8%",
    "topKeywords": [
        { "keyword": "booking", "position": 1, "positionChange": null, "volume": 647000, "volumeChange": -3000, "traffic": 553000, "trafficChange": 369800 },
        { "keyword": "booking.com", "position": 1, "positionChange": null, "volume": 306000, "volumeChange": 11000, "traffic": 84800, "trafficChange": 3000 }
    ],
    "topCompetitors": [
        { "domain": "expedia.com", "traffic": 12800000, "trafficChange": -426300, "pages": 404800 },
        { "domain": "hotels.com", "traffic": 5600000, "trafficChange": -1100000, "pages": 153400 }
    ],
    "trafficHistoryMonthly": [
        { "month": "2026-09", "organicTraffic": 77930105, "trafficValueUsd": 19825660 },
        { "month": "2026-10", "organicTraffic": 59834661, "trafficValueUsd": 16162455 }
    ],
    "linkingWebsitesHistory": [
        { "month": "2026-08", "linkingWebsites": 254986 },
        { "month": "2026-09", "linkingWebsites": 256173 }
    ]
}

Field guide

• Headline figures: domainRating, linkingWebsites, organicTraffic, trafficValueUsd and organicKeywords. The change fields linkingWebsitesChange, organicTrafficChange and trafficValueChangeUsd are the move since the previous month, empty when Ahrefs shows no change for that month.
• Exact figures: organicTrafficExact, trafficValueUsdExact, linkingWebsitesExact and their ...ChangeExact twins are the unrounded figures of the latest month from the chart data on the same page. A change twin is empty when the chart has no figure for the month before (a few sites' charts skip months).
• Ranks: globalRank (Ahrefs' worldwide top 1,000 by traffic), countryRank + countryRankCountry, category + categoryRank. Rank changes count places moved, positive = up; they are empty when Ahrefs shows no arrow (the rank did not move, or the site is new to the ranking).
• Keywords: topKeyword... is the keyword sending the most traffic; topKeywords lists the top 5 with search volume, traffic and position, for the market in topKeywordCountry.
• Countries: topCountry... is the country sending the most traffic; topCountries lists the top 5 with exact visits, the previous month and share of all search traffic.
• Competitors: competitors lists the domains ranking in the top 10 for the keywords the site gets most of its traffic from; topCompetitors adds each one's traffic, change and page count; topCompetitorsCountry is the market they were measured in.
• Nearest ranks: neighbourDomain / neighbourVisits / neighbourRank and similarlyRanked (five sites around it) for sites in the worldwide top 1,000.
• History: trafficHistory is the organic traffic series of Ahrefs' chart, oldest first. Ahrefs leaves out months it has no figure for, so use trafficHistoryMonthly (the same points with their month and traffic value) when dates matter. linkingWebsitesHistory is the monthly linking websites.
• Text note: siteTextNote is set only when siteTitle or siteDescription is empty because Ahrefs hid it: it shows "Explicit content" in place of some sites' title or description (reddit.com's description, for one), and once left a template slot such as "[unspecified services]" in its description.
• Text twins (topCountriesText, topKeywordsText, competitorsText) put the lists in one readable cell for CSV and Sheets.
• Page facts: dataMonth is the month the figures describe, pageDescription is Ahrefs' own summary sentence of the page, dateModified the page date, scrapedAt when this run read it.

What to expect (field coverage)

Measured on 1 November 2026 on two samples: 118 of the world's most-visited websites, and 34 varied sites (mega-sites, SaaS, retail, news, sites in Japan, Germany, Turkey, Russia and Argentina, and small sites outside Ahrefs' ranking). Smaller sites sit outside more of Ahrefs' rankings, so they carry fewer rank fields.

Field	118 top sites	34 varied sites
domainRating, linkingWebsites, linkingWebsitesChange, organicTraffic, organicTrafficChange, trafficValueUsd, organicTrafficExact, trafficValueUsdExact, linkingWebsitesExact, linkingWebsitesChangeExact, dataMonth, top country, topCountries, all three histories	100%	100%
trafficValueChangeUsd, organicTrafficChangeExact, trafficValueChangeUsdExact	99%	100%
Top keyword, topKeywords	97%	100%
siteDescription	96%	100%
siteTitle	95%	97%
competitors, topCompetitors	99%	97%
organicKeywords	97%	88%
category, categoryRank	97%	73%
globalRank, neighbour..., similarlyRanked	100%	67%
globalRankChange	95%	64%
countryRank	90%	50%
countryRankChange	80%	38%
categoryRankChange	63%	58%

Why a field is empty: Ahrefs prints the keyword count only for sites in its ranked lists, and the global rank and nearest ranks only for its worldwide top 1,000 by traffic. A rank change is empty when Ahrefs shows no arrow (the rank did not move, or the site is new to that ranking). For a few sites Ahrefs lists no keywords or competitors, or shows "Explicit content" in place of the title or description, and siteTextNote then says so.

Numbers are Ahrefs' own. The headline fields are the figures Ahrefs prints on the page, abbreviated there (256.2K, $16.2M) and expanded here to plain numbers, so they are exact to the printed precision. The ...Exact fields carry the same month unrounded. For sites outside Ahrefs' ranked list the page prints no traffic tiles, so traffic and traffic value come from the page's own figures and chart data, and dataMonth is the month of the latest traffic figure Ahrefs has (for a few sites Ahrefs stopped updating, that month can be in the past).

Automate & schedule

Pair with Apify Schedules to re-check a prospect or portfolio list weekly and push to Google Sheets, Slack or your warehouse.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Expose this actor to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client via the Apify MCP server and ask for SEO metrics in plain language.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready: AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402: an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server, with no account and no API key.
• Skyfire: agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Pricing

Pay per event: one charge per website delivered (one domain's record), at the price shown on this page's Pricing tab. From 16 November 2026, each run also pays a small start fee when it starts: one fee for a run of up to 1 GB of memory (the default), plus one per extra GB; the Pricing tab shows the amount. Domains Ahrefs does not track, domains whose page could not be read and domains a run did not reach are never charged. Set a maximum cost per run (the start fee counts toward it) and the run stops before it fetches a domain the limit cannot pay for, and its run card says so.

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

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FAQ

Does this need an Ahrefs subscription? No. It reads only the free Top-Websites pages Ahrefs publishes publicly.

Why is a domain "not tracked"? Ahrefs publishes a page only for domains in its index, which leaves out many small or new sites. Use the domain itself (example.com, not a page URL); a subdomain is looked up as typed.

Why do some sites have no global rank? Ahrefs ranks the top 1,000 sites by traffic worldwide; sites below that show only a category or country rank, or none.

Why is the traffic number lower than Semrush's? Different metrics. Ahrefs reports organic search traffic; Semrush's visits figure counts all traffic. Both are estimates from each vendor's own model.

Can I import a big list? Yes: paste it, link it, or use the Start-URLs Link remote text file option. A file that cannot be read is named on the run card, and no domain is billed for it.

How do I know what happened in a run? The run card says it: how many domains were delivered, which ones Ahrefs does not track, which ones got no answer, and whether a time limit, a cost limit or a proxy that never answered stopped the run early.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ahrefs or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Ahrefs" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Ahrefs product, is not authorised or certified by Ahrefs, and does not distribute Ahrefs software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

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