# Similarweb Scraper (`piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper`) Actor

Get Similarweb traffic data for any list of domains: monthly visits with history, global, country and category rank, bounce rate, pages per visit, visit duration, traffic sources, top countries, top keywords and AI chatbot traffic (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 domains

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### 🚀 Similarweb Scraper

Get **Similarweb website traffic data** for any list of domains. The **Similarweb Scraper** returns each site's estimated monthly visits with a 3-month history, global, country and category rank, bounce rate, pages per visit and average visit duration, the traffic-source split (direct, search, social, referrals, email, ads and AI chatbots), the top countries, the top search keywords with volume and CPC, and **AI chatbot traffic**: how many visits come from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and others, each chatbot's share with history, and the prompts that lead people to the site. Use it for competitor research, market sizing, lead scoring, investment and M\&A screening, affiliate and publisher vetting, or tracking a list of sites month by month. No Similarweb account needed.

### ✨ Features

- 📈 **Monthly visits + history**: The latest month's estimated visits and the 3 months before it, to spot growth and decline.
- 🏆 **Global, country and category rank**: Where the site stands worldwide, in its main country and in its industry category.
- ⏱️ **Engagement**: Bounce rate, pages per visit and average visit duration.
- 🔀 **Traffic sources**: Share of direct, organic and paid search, referrals, organic and paid social, email, display ads, affiliates and AI chatbots.
- 🤖 **AI chatbot traffic**: Visits from AI assistants, the share each chatbot sends (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Copilot) with a 3-month history, and the top prompts that send users to the site.
- 🌍 **Top countries**: The 5 countries that bring the most visits, with their share.
- 🔑 **Top keywords**: The search keywords that send the most traffic, with search volume, CPC and estimated value.
- 🧹 **Paste anything**: `example.com`, `www.example.com` or a full URL; duplicates are looked up once. Subdomains (`docs.example.com`) are looked up on their own.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Add domains**: one per line, as domains or URLs.
2. **Set Max domains**: the default is 50.
3. **Run the Scraper**: one row per domain, downloadable as JSON, CSV or Excel or through the API.

Domains Similarweb has no data for (very small or new sites) are skipped, not charged, and listed in the run's status message.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field                   | What it does                                                                             |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Domains**             | Websites to look up: `apify.com`, `www.apify.com` or `https://apify.com/store`.          |
| **Max domains**         | Stop after this many domains. Default 50.                                                |
| **Proxy configuration** | Residential proxies by default (recommended).                                            |

With an empty input the scraper reports on `apify.com` and `github.com`.

```json
{
    "domains": ["zalando.de", "otto.de", "aboutyou.de"],
    "maxItems": 100
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

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

| Event           | Price                                 | What you get                                                                                                         |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Domain**      | $0.002 per domain ($2.00 per 1,000)   | One row with visits and history, ranks, engagement, traffic sources, top countries, top keywords and AI traffic     |
| **Actor start** | $0.00005 per run                      | Charged once when the run starts.                                                                                    |

Examples: 50 domains = $0.10 · 1,000 domains = $2.00 · 10,000 domains = $20.00. Domains without data are free.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

```json
{
    "domain": "github.com",
    "url": "https://www.similarweb.com/website/github.com/",
    "title": "GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead.",
    "description": "Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.",
    "category": "Computers Electronics and Technology/Programming and Developer Software",
    "globalRank": 45,
    "countryRank": { "countryCode": "US", "rank": 77 },
    "categoryRank": 4,
    "globalCategoryRank": null,
    "month": "2026-09",
    "monthlyVisits": 645466516,
    "bounceRatePercent": 36.44,
    "pagesPerVisit": 5.69,
    "avgVisitDurationSeconds": 387,
    "visitsHistory": [
        { "month": "2026-07", "visits": 637885711 },
        { "month": "2026-08", "visits": 649321442 },
        { "month": "2026-09", "visits": 645466516 }
    ],
    "trafficSourcesPercent": {
        "direct": 53.31,
        "organicSearch": 24.34,
        "paidSearch": 0.02,
        "referrals": 9.32,
        "organicSocial": 9.42,
        "paidSocial": 0.12,
        "email": 1.22,
        "displayAds": 0.25,
        "affiliate": 0,
        "aiChatbots": 1.99
    },
    "topCountries": [
        { "countryCode": "US", "sharePercent": 18.73 },
        { "countryCode": "CN", "sharePercent": 11.83 }
    ],
    "topKeywords": [
        { "keyword": "github", "volume": 10089950, "cpc": 1.62, "estimatedValue": 11461050 },
        { "keyword": "github desktop", "volume": 282600, "cpc": 2.25, "estimatedValue": 400930 }
    ],
    "aiTraffic": {
        "monthlyVisits": 12006520,
        "shareOfVisitsPercent": 1.91,
        "chatbots": [
            {
                "name": "chatgpt.com",
                "rank": 1,
                "sharePercent": 61.82,
                "history": [
                    { "month": "2026-07", "sharePercent": 49.06 },
                    { "month": "2026-08", "sharePercent": 71.55 },
                    { "month": "2026-09", "sharePercent": 61.82 }
                ]
            },
            { "name": "claude.ai", "rank": 2, "sharePercent": 12.86, "history": [] },
            { "name": "perplexity.ai", "rank": 4, "sharePercent": null, "history": [] }
        ],
        "topPrompts": [
            "How do I create a new repository, push an existing local project to it, and manage basic access permissions using a web-based Git hosting service?"
        ]
    },
    "isSmallSite": false,
    "screenshotUrl": "https://site-images.similarcdn.com/image?url=github.com&t=1&s=1&h=6525c30f1af9ea5ee8912788b611744e1debcba39a2d0dd3d410b2916169883b",
    "dataDate": "2026-09-01",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T11:34:46.379Z"
}
```

(Lists shortened here; a real row carries up to 5 countries and 5 keywords, every ranked chatbot, and the history for the top 3 chatbots.)

### ❓ FAQ

**How accurate are the numbers?** They are Similarweb's estimates, not analytics data. They are best for comparing sites and spotting trends.

**Which month is it?** `month` is the latest month Similarweb has published (usually the previous calendar month); `visitsHistory` covers the 3 months up to it.

**Why are some chatbot shares empty?** Similarweb ranks every AI chatbot that sends traffic but publishes the share and history only for the top 3. `topPrompts` is empty for sites where Similarweb does not show prompts.

**Do I need a Similarweb account?** No.

### 🔗 More SEO Actors

- [Ahrefs Traffic Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/ahrefs-traffic-scraper): organic search traffic, traffic value, top pages and keywords for any domain.
- [Ahrefs Domain Rating Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/ahrefs-domain-rating-scraper): Domain Rating, backlink and referring-domain counts for a list of domains.
- [Ahrefs Backlinks Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/ahrefs-backlinks-scraper): the top backlinks pointing at any domain, with anchor text and source DR.
- [Ahrefs Keyword Difficulty Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/ahrefs-keyword-difficulty-scraper): Keyword Difficulty plus the top-10 Google results with DR and traffic.
- [Google Keyword Volume Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/google-keyword-volume-scraper): monthly Google search volume, CPC and competition for your keyword list.
- [Google Ranked Keywords Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/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 Similarweb.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Websites to look up, one per line: example.com, www.example.com or a full URL (only the domain is used). Subdomains such as docs.example.com are looked up on their own.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many domains.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies are recommended; other proxies are refused most of the time.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "apify.com",
    "github.com"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "domains": [
        "apify.com",
        "github.com"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "domains": [
        "apify.com",
        "github.com",
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "domains": [
    "apify.com",
    "github.com"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/similarweb-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gsGQI0i3gn1VhMMAh/builds/dZDt3bylU3gCdvpH9/openapi.json