Ahrefs Domain Rating Scraper

🚀 Ahrefs Domain Rating Scraper: Bulk DR Checker

Check Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) for a whole list of websites in one run. The Ahrefs Domain Rating Scraper works as a bulk DR checker and website authority checker: for each domain or page it returns the DR together with total backlinks, referring domains and the dofollow share. Use it to vet link-building prospects, qualify guest-post and outreach lists, compare competitors or enrich a lead list with an authority score, or as a simple alternative to the Ahrefs API. No Ahrefs account or subscription needed.

🎯 Use Cases for a Bulk DR Checker

• Check domain rating of an outreach list: paste hundreds of prospect sites and sort them by DR before you write a single email.
• Qualify guest-post and link-building prospects: drop sites below your DR threshold or with a low dofollow share, so you only pay for links that count.
• Website authority checker for competitors: compare your DR, backlinks and referring domains with every competitor in one table.
• Enrich lead lists and marketplaces: add an authority score to a CRM export, an agency's client list or a link marketplace's inventory.
• Track DR over time: run the same list every month and watch your own and your clients' Domain Rating move.

✨ Features

• Domain Rating plus link totals: DR (0–100), total backlinks, referring domains, the percentage of dofollow backlinks and the percentage of dofollow referring domains.
• Bulk lists: hundreds or thousands of domains per run. Duplicates such as apify.com, www.apify.com and https://apify.com/ are checked once.
• Domains or exact pages: a bare domain covers the whole site including subdomains. A full page URL (https://apify.com/store) is checked as that exact page.
• One row per domain: easy to join back to your spreadsheet. Domains Ahrefs knows nothing about come back as a DR 0 row with noData: true instead of disappearing.
• Fair billing: noData rows are free, and the run stops cleanly at your maximum charge.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Add your domains: one per line, with or without https:// and www..
2. Set Max results: the number of domains to check. The default is 50.
3. Run the scraper: download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Domains or URLs	Domains (apify.com) or page URLs (https://apify.com/store). A domain includes its subdomains.
Max results	Stop after this many domains. Default 50.

With an empty input the scraper checks apify.com, ahrefs.com and semrush.com. For a list longer than 50 domains, raise Max results to the length of the list.

{
    "domains": ["apify.com", "ahrefs.com", "https://www.semrush.com/blog/"],
    "maxItems": 1000
}

💰 Pricing

Pay only for the domains you check. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Domain checked	$0.002 per domain ($2 per 1,000)	Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, dofollow backlinks % and dofollow referring domains %
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts.

Examples: 50 domains = $0.10 · 1,000 outreach prospects = $2.00 · 10,000 domains = $20. Domains Ahrefs has no data for (DR 0 with no links) are still returned, with noData: true, and are not charged.

📊 Sample Output Data

{
    "id": "subdomains:apify.com",
    "domain": "apify.com",
    "scope": "domain with subdomains",
    "domainRating": 82,
    "backlinks": 4043133,
    "referringDomains": 16705,
    "dofollowBacklinksPercent": 91,
    "dofollowReferringDomainsPercent": 73,
    "noData": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T10:48:03.735Z"
}

scope is domain with subdomains for a bare domain and exact URL for a page you entered with its path; for a page, backlinks and referringDomains count links to that page only, while domainRating is the DR of the whole site. noData: true marks a domain Ahrefs has no backlink data for: all numbers are 0 and the row is free. id is a stable key for joining rows across scheduled runs.

🔁 Schedule a Monthly DR Check

Domain Rating changes slowly, so for tracking run it once a month (or once a week for active link-building campaigns) with the same list: every run is a dated snapshot of DR, backlinks and referring domains. Set it up in Apify Schedules, then send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations, so fresh DR scores land in your outreach sheet or CRM automatically.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), so an agent can check the authority of sites while it builds an outreach list or audits a link profile. An agent can call it with:

{ "domains": ["apify.com", "semrush.com"], "maxItems": 10 }

❓ FAQ

Does Ahrefs have an official API? Yes. Ahrefs offers an official API as part of its paid subscription plans, billed in API units. This Actor is the practical alternative when you only need DR and link totals for a list of sites: no Ahrefs subscription, no API key, no rate-limit handling, and you pay per domain.

How do I check the domain rating of many websites at once? Paste the list into Domains or URLs, set Max results to at least the number of domains and run the Actor. You get one row per domain with DR, backlinks and referring domains, ready to sort in a spreadsheet.

Is Domain Rating the same as Domain Authority? No. Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' 0–100 score for the strength of a site's backlink profile; Domain Authority (DA) is a similar score from Moz, calculated differently. Both are logarithmic, so going from 20 to 30 is much easier than going from 70 to 80. This Actor returns Ahrefs DR.

Do I need an Ahrefs account? No. The Actor returns the data Ahrefs shows publicly in its free website authority checker.

Why does a domain show DR 0? Ahrefs has no backlink data for it, usually because the site is new, tiny or the domain is misspelled. Such rows have noData: true, are not charged and are listed in the run's status message.

Is there a limit on how many domains I can check? Only Max results (default 50) and your maximum charge per run. Large lists of several thousand domains fit in one run.

🔗 Related Scrapers

• Ahrefs Backlinks Scraper: the top backlinks pointing at any domain, with anchor text and the DR of each linking site.
• Ahrefs Traffic Scraper: monthly organic traffic, traffic value, top pages, countries and keywords for the same sites.
• Ahrefs Keyword Difficulty Scraper: Keyword Difficulty plus the top Google results with their DR and traffic.
• Similarweb Scraper: total monthly visits of each site, to pair authority with real audience size.
• Google Ranked Keywords Scraper: every keyword a domain ranks for on Google, with position and URL.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ahrefs. Domain Rating is a metric by Ahrefs.