Ahrefs Top Websites Scraper

Scrape top-ranking websites, trending websites, and detailed website analytics from Ahrefs Top. Extract search traffic data, domain ratings, backlink profiles, keyword rankings, and traffic trends for any website — filtered by country and category.

What does Ahrefs Top Websites Scraper do?

This actor extracts website ranking and analytics data from Ahrefs Top in three modes:

• Top Ranking — Scrape the ranked list of top websites with search traffic estimates, rank changes, and categories. Filter by country (190+ countries) and category (25+ categories).
• Top Trending — Get the fastest-growing and fastest-declining websites, with traffic deltas and rank movement.
• Website Details — Scrape in-depth analytics for specific domains: domain rating, backlink profile, search traffic metrics, top keywords, competitors, traffic history charts, and more.

You can also combine ranking/trending with details by enabling Include Website Details, which enriches each result with full analytics data.

How much does it cost?

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

Event	Description
result	Each website row from Top Ranking or Top Trending output
detail-result	Each website detail result in Website Details mode or when including Details in Top Ranking or Top Trending

You can set a spending limit on each run to control costs. The actor stops automatically when your event charge limit is reached.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	top_ranking	Scraping mode: top_ranking, top_trending, or website_details
country	string	worldwide	Filter by country (190+ supported). Used in top_ranking and top_trending modes
category	string	all categories	Filter by category (e.g. Finance, Shopping, News, Entertainment). Used in top_ranking and top_trending modes
top_ranking_result_limit	integer	1000	Maximum number of websites to scrape in top_ranking mode (minimum 100)
top_list_include_website_details	boolean	false	When enabled in top_ranking or top_trending mode, enriches each result with full website details
website_details	string[]	[]	List of domains for website_details mode. Accepts bare domains (wikipedia.org), full URLs (https://wikipedia.org), or Ahrefs Top URLs (https://ahrefstop.com/websites/wikipedia.org)

Input examples

Top 500 finance websites in the United States:

{
    "mode": "top_ranking",
    "country": "united states",
    "category": "finance",
    "top_ranking_result_limit": 500
}

Trending websites worldwide with full details:

{
    "mode": "top_trending",
    "country": "worldwide",
    "category": "all categories",
    "top_list_include_website_details": true
}

Detailed analytics for specific domains:

{
    "mode": "website_details",
    "website_details": [
        "wikipedia.org",
        "github.com",
        "reddit.com"
    ]
}

Important: When using website_details mode with your own list of domains, be aware that Ahrefs Top only has detail data for popular/well-known websites. For lesser-known domains, Ahrefs Top returns no data (404), but you will still be charged for the request since we incur costs by sending it. Prefer using top_ranking or top_trending mode with top_list_include_website_details enabled.

Output

Top Ranking output

Each result contains the website's position in the Ahrefs ranking:

{
    "rank": 1,
    "delta": 0,
    "deltaDirection": "same",
    "website": "google.com",
    "category": "Internet & Telecom",
    "searchTraffic": "16.1B",
    "searchTrafficDelta": 0,
    "searchTrafficDeltaDirection": "down"
}

Field	Description
rank	Current position in the ranking
delta	Rank change since last update
deltaDirection	Direction of rank change: up, down, or same
website	Domain name
category	Website category
searchTraffic	Estimated monthly search traffic (abbreviated, e.g. 16.1B)
searchTrafficDelta	Search traffic change value
searchTrafficDeltaDirection	Direction of traffic change

Top Trending output

Same fields as Top Ranking plus:

Field	Description
trendingDirection	Either trendingUp or trendingDown

Website Details output

Detailed analytics for a single domain:

{
    "website": "github.com",
    "websiteDescription": "GitHub is where people build software...",
    "websiteSubtitle": "github.com",
    "dataDate": "March 2026",
    "domainRating": 97,
    "trafficRankWorldwide": {
        "rank": 42,
        "label": "Worldwide",
        "delta": 2,
        "deltaDirection": "up"
    },
    "trafficRankCountry": {
        "rank": 28,
        "label": "United States",
        "delta": 1,
        "deltaDirection": "up"
    },
    "trafficRankCategory": {
        "rank": 3,
        "label": "Computers & Electronics",
        "delta": 0,
        "deltaDirection": "same"
    },
    "searchTrafficImpressions": {
        "value": 494800000,
        "delta": 8700000,
        "deltaDirection": "up"
    },
    "searchTrafficValue": {
        "value": 300000000,
        "delta": 0,
        "deltaDirection": "same"
    },
    "searchKeywords": {
        "value": 21000000,
        "delta": 0,
        "deltaDirection": "same"
    },
    "linkingWebsites": {
        "value": 7800000,
        "delta": 0,
        "deltaDirection": "same"
    },
    "topCompetitors": [
        {
            "website": "stackoverflow.com",
            "traffic": "283.1M",
            "trafficDelta": "+15.7M",
            "rank": 64
        }
    ],
    "similarlyRanked": [],
    "topKeywords": [
        {
            "keyword": "github",
            "volume": "30.4M",
            "volumeDelta": null,
            "traffic": "7.8M",
            "trafficDelta": null,
            "position": "1",
            "positionDelta": null
        }
    ],
    "searchTrafficData": [
        {
            "date": "2024-01",
            "search_traffic": 450000000,
            "search_traffic_value": 280000000
        }
    ],
    "referringDomainsData": [
        {
            "date": "2024-01",
            "value": 7500000
        }
    ]
}

Field	Description
website	Domain name
websiteDescription	Site description from Ahrefs
websiteSubtitle	Subtitle shown on the detail page
dataDate	When the data was last updated (e.g. "March 2026")
domainRating	Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100)
trafficRankWorldwide	Global traffic rank with delta
trafficRankCountry	Country-level traffic rank with delta
trafficRankCategory	Category-level traffic rank with delta
searchTrafficImpressions	Estimated monthly search traffic with delta
searchTrafficValue	Estimated monetary value of search traffic
searchKeywords	Number of ranking keywords with delta
linkingWebsites	Number of referring domains with delta
topCompetitors	List of top competing websites
similarlyRanked	List of similarly ranked websites
topKeywords	Top organic keywords with volume, traffic, and position
searchTrafficData	Historical search traffic time series
referringDomainsData	Historical referring domains time series

Enriched output (Top Ranking/Trending + Details)

When Include Website Details is enabled, each ranking or trending result includes a website_details field containing the Website Details object described above if Ahrefstop has data for this domain:

{
    "rank": 42,
    "delta": 2,
    "deltaDirection": "up",
    "website": "github.com",
    "category": "Computers & Electronics",
    "searchTraffic": "494.8M",
    "searchTrafficDelta": 8700000,
    "searchTrafficDeltaDirection": "up",
    "website_details": {
        "websiteDescription": "GitHub is where people build software...",
        "domainRating": 97,
        "topKeywords": [],
        "searchTrafficData": [],
        "..."
    }
}

Use cases

• SEO research — Analyze top-performing websites in any niche to understand competitive landscapes
• Market intelligence — Track which websites are gaining or losing traffic in specific countries and categories
• Competitor analysis — Compare domain ratings, backlink profiles, and keyword rankings across competitors
• Trend monitoring — Identify fast-growing websites and emerging players in your industry
• Lead generation — Build lists of top websites by category and country for outreach campaigns
• Investment research — Evaluate the organic search presence and growth trajectory of digital businesses