Similarweb Scraper

Similarweb Website Analytics & Similar Sites Scraper

Imagine you’ve just discovered a competitor making waves. You want to know where their traffic comes from, how engaged their audience is, and which sites look most like them. With this scraper, you paste a single domain (or any URL), and moments later you’ve got clear analytics and similar-site suggestions, neatly saved in your Apify dataset — ready to explore, compare, and act.

Why use this scraper

• Actionable insights: traffic indicators, engagement metrics, and relevant similar sites
• Simple input: just one field (domain) — paste a domain or a full URL
• Clean output: consistent JSON you can export to CSV/JSON/Excel from Apify
• Robust behavior: retries on transient errors, clear error objects when something fails

How it works

1. You provide a domain or URL (the actor auto-normalizes URLs to the domain)
2. The actor fetches analytics for that domain
3. It also fetches a curated list of similar websites
4. One dataset item is stored per run with both results

Input

• domain (string, required): Domain or URL. Examples:
  • nike.com
  • https://nike.com/some/path
  • https://www.similarweb.com/website/nike.com/#social-media

Output (dataset item)

{
  "domain": "nike.com",
  "analysis": { "...": "site analysis data" },
  "similarSites": { "...": "similar sites data" },
  "error": { "message": "...", "status": 429, "data": { "...": "optional" } }
}

If a request fails, the error field is present and the partial response (if any) is included for debugging.

Typical use cases

• Market research and competitor mapping
• Content strategy and keyword discovery inspiration
• Prospecting and lead list enrichment
• Benchmarking and performance tracking for target domains

FAQs

• Can I paste a full link? Yes — URLs are auto-normalized to the core domain.
• Do I need anything besides a domain? No — just provide domain in the input.
• Where is the data saved? Results are stored in your Apify dataset for easy export.

Notes

• The actor supports URL normalization: it will extract nike.com from full links automatically.
• Respect target websites' terms; use reasonable request pacing.