Ahrefs Scraper: DR, Backlinks, Traffic, Keywords & SERP

Get Ahrefs SEO data in bulk, without an Ahrefs account or subscription: Domain Rating, backlink counts and top backlinks, organic traffic, keyword difficulty, keyword ideas, the Google results page with Ahrefs metrics for each result, rank checks, broken backlinks and AI search visibility. Paste a list of websites or keywords, pick the tools, and get one clean record per tool and target. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

Quick start

1. Pick one or more Tools (Domain Rating is selected by default).
2. Paste Websites (stripe.com, https://www.notion.so/product…) and/or Keywords (best crm).
3. Click Start and read the results in the run's Output tab.

Like any Apify Actor, it can be run through the Apify API, scheduled, and connected to webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or Apify's MCP server for AI agents.

What it is used for

• Link building and outreach: sort a list of 1,000 prospect sites by Domain Rating in one run.
• Competitor research: traffic, top pages, top countries, top keywords and best backlinks of any site.
• Keyword research: difficulty, ideas, questions, and who ranks on page one with their DR and backlinks.
• Rank tracking: the position of your site for a list of keywords, by country.
• AI search visibility: how often a brand is cited in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and on which topics.

Tools

Tool	Input	What you get
domainRating	websites	Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, dofollow shares
backlinks	websites	the same counts plus the top 20 backlinks (source URL, target, anchor, title, DR)
traffic	websites	monthly organic traffic and its value in USD, 6-month history, top pages, countries, keywords
brokenLinks	websites	broken backlinks pointing to the site (source, broken target, anchor) and their total
aiOverviews, aiMode	websites	mentions in Google AI answers, trend, top topics, top cited domains and pages, timelines
keywordDifficulty	keywords	KD (0–100), referring domains needed for the top 10, page one with metrics, AI Overview text
keywordIdeas	keywords	up to 20 related keywords and 20 questions, with difficulty and volume range, and the totals
serp	keywords	page one of Google with DR, UR, backlinks, traffic and top keyword of each result
rankCheck	keywords + Rank domain	the position and ranking URL of your domain, with page one

Each tool and target pair is one result. Two tools on 50 websites = up to 100 results. One run takes up to 5,000 lookups (for example 1,000 websites with up to 5 website tools: raise Max results above its default of 1,000 for that); split bigger jobs into several runs.

Inputs

• Tools: one or more of the tools above.
• Websites: domains or full links, up to 1,000. A link is reduced to its host (https://www.apify.com/store reads www.apify.com); the same target given more than once is read once. International names work in either form (bücher.de and xn--bcher-kva.de are one target). Ahrefs treats www.apify.com and apify.com as two different targets with their own counts (824,905 and 4,036,720 backlinks on 19 October 2026), so give the one you mean. An e-mail address is refused, with the domain to give instead.
• Check the spelling of each website: Ahrefs answers a domain it does not know (a typo, a made-up name) like a real site with no links: Domain Rating 0, 0 backlinks, 0 traffic. That record is a real answer and is charged like any other; a keyword Ahrefs does not know gives a free not_found record instead.
• Keywords: up to 1,000, for the keyword tools. Ahrefs reads the first 200 characters of a keyword.
• Country: two-letter code for the keyword tools (default us; uk is read as gb). The 188 countries of Ahrefs' keyword database are accepted; any other code stops the run before anything is looked up.
• Rank domain: the site whose position rankCheck looks for (www. or not, it is the same site; any other subdomain is a site of its own: apify.com does not match pages on blog.apify.com, give blog.apify.com for them).
• Backlinks mode: subdomains (default, the whole domain) or exact (only the exact URL you give, path included). In exact, http:// and https:// give the same numbers and are read once, but a trailing slash makes another URL for Ahrefs: https://apify.com/store had 3,410 backlinks and https://apify.com/store/ 13.
• Max results: counted exactly.

{
  "tools": ["domainRating", "keywordDifficulty"],
  "websites": ["apify.com", "notion.so"],
  "keywords": ["web scraping"],
  "country": "us"
}

Output

One record per tool and target. Two shortened examples from a real run:

{
  "type": "result",
  "status": "ok",
  "tool": "domainRating",
  "input": "notion.so",
  "target": "notion.so",
  "domainRating": 92,
  "backlinks": 24207779,
  "referringDomains": 140379,
  "dofollowBacklinksPercent": 95,
  "dofollowReferringDomainsPercent": 83,
  "resultId": "9bd8d7366b2fc34178c1",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T20:42:56Z"
}

{
  "type": "result",
  "status": "ok",
  "tool": "keywordDifficulty",
  "input": "seo tools",
  "country": "us",
  "keywordDifficulty": 78,
  "referringDomainsToRankTop10": 310,
  "serpResults": [
    {"position": 2, "title": "100% Free SEO Tools - SmallSEOTools.com", "url": "https://smallseotools.com/",
     "domainRating": 81, "urlRating": 23, "backlinks": 77121, "referringDomains": 4715, "traffic": 69210,
     "topKeyword": "seo tools", "topKeywordVolume": 319000}
  ],
  "aiOverviewText": "Top SEO tools are categorized by their primary function…"
}

• Every record has the same fields, error records included; a field a tool does not fill is null, never missing.
• status: ok (delivered, charged) or error (free). errorCode and error say why, retryable says whether a later run may work: invalid_input (not a website, or an input the run cannot use), not_found (Ahrefs has no data for that keyword or site, including an answer where every value is empty), rejected_by_site, temporarily_unavailable.
• resultId is stable for the same tool, target and options: use it to deduplicate between runs.

The run summary (counts, why it stopped, notes on your input) is the OUTPUT record of the run's key-value store.

What we measured

On Apify (256 MB):

• Default input (18 October 2026; 2 Domain Ratings and 1 keyword difficulty): 3 results in 3.8 seconds.
• All ten tools at once (19 October 2026) on 8 large sites and 3 keywords, one of them made up: 60 lookups, 55 results in 100 seconds. The 5 lookups left without a result each got a free error record: four lookups of the made-up keyword, which Ahrefs has no data for, and the broken backlinks of google.com, which Ahrefs answered with a server error.
• No fake zeros: Ahrefs' free tools show google.com with a Domain Rating of 100 and 0 backlinks. When Ahrefs gives no counts for a domain, domainRating gives them as null with a note and backlinks a free record to retry, never 0.
• Duplicates: apify.com and APIFY.COM in the same list are read and charged once.

Pricing

You pay per result: one tool on one website or keyword.

Apify plan	Per result	Per 1,000 results
Free	$0.009	$9.00
Starter (Bronze)	$0.0048	$4.80
Scale (Silver)	$0.0043	$4.30
Business (Gold) and above	$0.0038	$3.80

Plus $0.001 per run start (memory is capped at 256 MB, so the start is always counted once). The Free plan gets every tool.

Never charged: error records (invalid input, no data, a temporary failure), records where Ahrefs returns no value at all, and repeats. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the run stops before going over it, with the results delivered so far.

Limits

• Keyword ideas give a difficulty label and a volume range (MoreThanOneThousand…), as Ahrefs' free tool does, not exact search volumes.
• Top backlinks are the 20 best Ahrefs shows for free; the backlink and referring domain counts are the full ones.
• Very large domains (google.com, facebook.com…): Ahrefs can answer for a while with a Domain Rating but no backlink counts, then with the counts a few minutes later. The run asks again before giving up. If the counts still are not there, domainRating gives the Domain Rating with the counts at null and a note (charged: the rating is there), and backlinks gives a free temporarily_unavailable record to retry. Broken links of such domains can take too long for Ahrefs to answer: free temporarily_unavailable record.
• domainRating and backlinks can give different totals for a very large domain (amazon.com: about 2.0 billion and 2.4 billion backlinks): each comes from its own Ahrefs page, as Ahrefs shows them. For most sites they match.
• Backlinks pace: Ahrefs limits how fast its backlinks overview can be read: depending on the connection, a few websites per minute, or a few dozen in a row followed by a pause of several minutes. The run waits for Ahrefs (up to 5 minutes without an answer), then gives the websites left a free temporarily_unavailable record to run again later. For a long list, domainRating gives the same counts for most sites without this limit (except the very large domains it has to ask again, see above); keep backlinks for the sites whose top backlinks you need.
• Organic traffic: organicTrafficMonthly is the "Organic traffic" figure of Ahrefs' Traffic Checker (its latest monthly estimate) and trafficHistory the monthly points of its chart; on a site whose traffic is changing fast, the latest estimate can be below or above every month of the history.
• Data is what Ahrefs publishes at the time of the run; Ahrefs updates it on its own schedule.
• If Ahrefs cannot be reached for a while, the affected inputs get free temporarily_unavailable records; nothing is charged for them.