Ahrefs Scraper - Domain Rating, Traffic Value & Backlinks

Turn any list of domains into a clean SEO table built on Ahrefs' own numbers - Domain Rating, organic search traffic, traffic value in dollars, organic keyword count, linking websites with monthly change, top keyword, top country and organic competitors.

No Ahrefs subscription. No API key. No browser. It reads Ahrefs' free, public Top Websites pages (ahrefs.com/websites/<domain>, which Ahrefs redirects to ahrefstop.com).

Why this Ahrefs scraper?

Data	Typical Ahrefs scrapers	This actor
Domain Rating (DR)	✅	✅
Linking websites (referring domains)	partial	✅ + monthly change
Organic search traffic	partial	✅ + monthly change
Traffic value in USD	❌	✅ + monthly change
Organic keyword count	❌	✅
Global rank + nearest-ranked neighbour	❌	✅
Top keyword with position, country, monthly visits	❌	✅
Top country with visits, change and share	❌	✅
Organic competitors	partial	✅
Long-run monthly organic traffic history (~134 points)	❌	✅

32 fields per domain. Domains Ahrefs does not track are reported honestly and never charged.

Pairs with Semrush

Ahrefs and Semrush measure different things, and serious research uses both. Ahrefs organicTraffic is organic search traffic only; Semrush visits counts all visits - so the two numbers differ by design and are not interchangeable. Run this alongside Semrush Scraper for Authority Score, bounce rate, paid traffic and AI-assistant referrals.

Use cases

• Link-building prospecting - filter a prospect list by DR and linking websites before outreach.
• SEO due diligence - traffic value and DR trend before buying a site.
• Competitor benchmarking - DR, traffic and keyword counts side by side.
• Lead scoring - qualify agency prospects by real organic traffic, not vanity metrics.
• Portfolio monitoring - schedule weekly and watch DR and linking websites move.

How to use

1. Add your domains under Domains (one per line) - or paste/link a list under Import domains from a file.
2. Hit Start.
3. Export JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull from the API.

Input

{
    "domains": ["booking.com", "stripe.com"],
    "includeHistory": true,
    "includeKeywords": true,
    "includeCountries": true,
    "includeCompetitors": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

• domains - domains to analyse. Full URLs and Ahrefs links are reduced to the registrable domain.
• startUrls - paste Ahrefs URLs directly; also accepts the Console's Link remote text file option.
• urlsFromFile - paste a whole list, or give one link to a .txt/.csv, Google Sheet, Drive share or key-value-store record. Blank lines, # comments, CRLF, a UTF-8 BOM, quotes and extra CSV columns all parse; duplicates are analysed once.
• includeHistory / includeKeywords / includeCountries / includeCompetitors - toggle sections. All come from one page load, so turning one off makes the record leaner, not cheaper.
• outputFields (pick-list) - tick exactly the fields you want; the dropdown lists all 32 with plain-English labels and their exact key.
• maxItems, proxyConfiguration - cap per run, and proxy settings (Apify datacenter by default).

Output

{
    "type": "website",
    "domain": "booking.com",
    "url": "https://ahrefstop.com/websites/booking.com",
    "domainRating": 93,
    "linkingWebsites": 251800,
    "linkingWebsitesChange": 5300,
    "organicTraffic": 57200000,
    "organicTrafficChange": 5500000,
    "trafficValueUsd": 16200000,
    "trafficValueChangeUsd": 1100000,
    "organicKeywords": 3000000,
    "globalRank": 77,
    "topCountry": "United States",
    "topCountryVisits": 5300000,
    "topCountryShare": 0.093,
    "topKeyword": "booking",
    "topKeywordPosition": 1,
    "topKeywordCountry": "United States",
    "topKeywordVisits": 553000,
    "competitors": ["hotels.com", "expedia.com", "travelweekly.com"],
    "neighbourDomain": "gsmarena.com",
    "neighbourRank": 76,
    "trafficHistory": [1274937, 1820203, 1963552],
    "dataMonth": "July 2026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-09T20:00:00.000Z"
}

What to expect (field coverage)

Measured over a deliberately varied sample (mega-sites, SaaS, retail, news, a small niche tool):

Field	Coverage
domainRating, linkingWebsites + change, topCountry/topKeyword blocks, competitors, trafficHistory	100%
organicTraffic, trafficValueUsd, organicKeywords + changes	~91% - Ahrefs shows backlink data but omits traffic tiles for domains it has crawled for links yet has no traffic estimate for
globalRank, neighbourDomain/neighbourVisits/neighbourRank	~36% - Ahrefs publishes a numeric global rank only for domains inside its ranked Top-Websites list

Numbers are Ahrefs' own, as published. The page abbreviates them (251.8K, $16.2M); this actor expands them to integers, so values are exact to the published precision, not to the unit.

Automate & schedule

Pair with Apify Schedules to re-check a prospect or portfolio list weekly and push to Google Sheets, Slack or your warehouse.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Expose this actor to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client via the Apify MCP server and ask for SEO metrics in plain language.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per domain. Domains Ahrefs does not track cost nothing.

FAQ

Does this need an Ahrefs subscription? No. It reads only the free Top-Websites pages Ahrefs publishes publicly.

Why is a domain "not tracked"? Ahrefs publishes a page only for domains in its index. Use the registrable domain (example.com, not a sub-path), and expect very small or brand-new sites to be absent.

Why is the traffic number lower than Semrush's? Different metrics. Ahrefs reports organic search traffic; Semrush's visits counts all traffic. Both are estimates from each vendor's own model.

Can I import a big list? Yes - paste it, link it, or use the Start-URLs Link remote text file option. A file that cannot be read says so and charges nothing.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab - feature requests genuinely do get built.

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Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ahrefs. "Ahrefs" is a trademark of its respective owner and is used here only to describe what this tool reads. Scrapes public pages only.