🌐 SimilarWeb Quick Scraper

Get website traffic, engagement, ranking, keyword, and AI-traffic data for any list of domains — instantly. Paste your websites, hit Start, and export the results to JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. No SimilarWeb login, no API key, no browser automation overhead.

This Actor taps SimilarWeb's free public data endpoint with a real-browser TLS/JA3 fingerprint (via curl_cffi) and smart proxy escalation, so you get clean structured data even though SimilarWeb's CloudFront WAF blocks ordinary requests.

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⭐ Why Choose Us?

• ⚡ Fast & lightweight — no headless browser; pure async HTTP with browser impersonation.
• 🛡️ Smart proxy escalation — starts direct, auto-falls back to datacenter then residential proxies only when needed, then sticks with the tier that works.
• 💾 Live saving — every domain is written to the dataset the instant it's scraped; a mid-run stop never loses completed work.
• 📊 Organized output — four ready-made dataset views (Overview, Traffic, Geography, Keywords/AI).
• 🔁 Robust retries — exponential backoff on blocks, configurable concurrency and delays.
• 📥 Flexible input — paste bare domains or full URLs; both work.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
🌐 Traffic & engagement	Monthly visits, bounce rate, pages/visit, time on site
🥇 Rankings	Global rank, country rank, category rank
🚦 Traffic sources	Direct, search, social, referral, mail, paid, GenAI, affiliate, display
🗺️ Geography	Top country shares with country codes
🔑 Keywords	Top organic keywords with volume, CPC, estimated value
🤖 AI traffic	Breakdown of traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and more
🖼️ Screenshot	Large site screenshot URL

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
websites ✅	array	Domains or URLs to scrape (bulk supported).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings; country seeds the residential pool.
concurrency	integer	Max simultaneous requests (default 4).
maxRetries	integer	Residential retry attempts (default 3).
requestDelay	number	Optional fixed delay before each request (seconds).
timeout	integer	Per-request timeout in seconds (default 60).
impersonate	string	Browser TLS fingerprint: chrome, edge, safari, …
token	string	Optional priority token (not required).

Example input

{
  "websites": ["apple.com", "https://www.microsoft.com/", "google.com"],
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true },
  "concurrency": 4,
  "maxRetries": 3
}

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📤 Output

One record per domain, matching SimilarWeb's payload verbatim with Url and domain prepended:

{
  "Url": "https://similarweb.com/website/apple.com",
  "domain": "apple.com",
  "Version": 1,
  "SiteName": "apple.com",
  "Description": "Data & Privacy",
  "TopCountryShares": [ { "Country": 840, "CountryCode": "US", "Value": 0.326 } ],
  "Title": "Legal - Improve Fitness+ & Privacy - Apple",
  "Engagments": {
    "BounceRate": "0.524", "Month": "4", "Year": "2026",
    "PagePerVisit": "3.38", "Visits": "524458499", "TimeOnSite": "146.41"
  },
  "EstimatedMonthlyVisits": { "2026-04-01": 524458499 },
  "GlobalRank": { "Rank": 72 },
  "CountryRank": { "Country": 840, "CountryCode": "US", "Rank": 56 },
  "CategoryRank": { "Rank": "1", "Category": "Computers_Electronics_and_Technology/Consumer_Electronics" },
  "TrafficSources": { "Direct": 0.32, "SearchOrganic": 0.42, "GenAi": 0.024 },
  "Category": "computers_electronics_and_technology/consumer_electronics",
  "LargeScreenshot": "https://site-images.similarcdn.com/image?url=apple.com…",
  "TopKeywords": [ { "Name": "apple", "EstimatedValue": 8948260, "Volume": 6935190, "Cpc": 0.55 } ],
  "AiTrafficDetails": { "Traffic": { "Split": [ { "Name": "chatgpt.com", "Rank": 1 } ] } },
  "SnapshotDate": "2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00"
}

The dataset ships with four views so you can read each section cleanly: 🏆 Overview & Ranks, 📈 Traffic & Engagement, 🌍 Geography, and 🔑 Keywords & AI Traffic.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open SimilarWeb Quick Scraper.
3. Paste your domains/URLs into 🔗 Websites / Domains.
4. (Optional) Pick a proxy country and tweak ⚙️ Advanced settings.
5. Click Start.
6. Watch the live log fill in with each domain's rank & visits.
7. Open the Output tab and switch between the four views.
8. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX / HTML.

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🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"websites":["apple.com","microsoft.com"]}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• 📊 Competitive & market research
• 🔍 SEO / SEM keyword and traffic-source analysis
• 📈 Lead qualification and sales prospecting
• 🏢 Agency reporting and pitch decks
• 🤖 Tracking the rise of AI-referred traffic

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💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event: you are charged once per successfully scraped domain (domain-data event). Failed domains are not charged. Platform usage (compute/proxy) follows your plan. Exact prices are shown on the Actor's Store page.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a SimilarWeb account? No. The Actor uses SimilarWeb's free public data endpoint.

Why does it use a proxy? SimilarWeb's WAF blocks datacenter/direct traffic. The Actor starts direct and only escalates to datacenter then residential proxies when blocked — keeping cost low while ensuring results.

Can I paste full URLs? Yes — https://www.apple.com/iphone is automatically trimmed to apple.com.

Some domains return no data. Very small or brand-new sites may have no SimilarWeb data; those are reported as failures, not charged.

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🛟 Support & Feedback

Found a bug or want a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console. We read every report.

⚖️ Data is collected only from publicly available sources. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and SimilarWeb's terms of use.