Ahrefs SEO Tools Scraper

Run Ahrefs' free SEO tools in bulk and get their data as clean JSON, without an Ahrefs account or subscription: Domain Rating, backlink counts and the top backlinks, organic traffic with its USD value, top pages, countries and keywords, broken links, keyword difficulty, keyword ideas with search-volume buckets and the Google SERP with DR, UR, backlinks and traffic of every ranking page. Many domains and keywords per run, several tools at once.

Features

• Seven tools in one actor - pick any combination:
  • authority (Website Authority Checker): Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains and their dofollow shares.
  • backlinks (Backlink Checker): the same plus the top backlinks with source URL, title, anchor, surrounding text and the linking page's DR.
  • traffic (Traffic Checker): monthly organic traffic and its value in USD, traffic history, top pages, top countries and top keywords; narrow it to one country.
  • broken-links (Broken Link Checker): broken backlinks pointing at the site and broken outgoing links on its pages.
  • keyword-difficulty (Keyword Difficulty Checker): KD 0-100, the referring domains a page needs to rank in the top 10, and the SERP.
  • keywords (Keyword Generator): Google keyword ideas and question ideas with difficulty and volume buckets.
  • serp (SERP Checker): the top Google results with DR, UR, backlinks, referring domains, traffic, value and keyword counts, plus AI overview, questions, shopping, local and news blocks.
• Bulk - every selected domain tool runs for every domain or URL, every keyword tool for every keyword, in parallel.
• Scope control - a domain with its subdomains, without them, a URL prefix or one exact URL.
• Any market - keyword tools take a country (US by default).

Use cases

• Link-building prospecting - Domain Rating and referring domains of hundreds of sites in one run.
• Competitor research - organic traffic, its value and top pages of competitor domains.
• Keyword research - difficulty and ideas for a keyword list before writing content.
• SERP analysis - how strong the pages ranking for a keyword are.
• Site maintenance - broken backlinks worth reclaiming and broken outgoing links to fix.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
tools	array	["authority"]	Tools to run: authority, backlinks, traffic, broken-links, keyword-difficulty, keywords, serp.
targets	array	-	Domains or URLs for the domain tools.
keywords	array	-	Search phrases for the keyword tools.
mode	string	subdomains	Domain scope: subdomains, domain, prefix or exact.
country	string	-	Keyword tools: search market (empty = us). Traffic: one country only (empty = worldwide).
includeQuestions	boolean	true	Keyword ideas: also return question ideas.
protocol	string	both	Traffic only: both, http or https.
concurrency	integer	3	Lookups at the same time (1-5).

With no domains and no keywords the actor runs the selected tools for the examples github.com / web scraping.

Example input

{
  "tools": ["authority", "traffic", "keyword-difficulty", "serp"],
  "targets": ["stripe.com", "https://www.shopify.com/blog"],
  "keywords": ["web scraping", "best vpn"],
  "country": "us"
}

This runs 2 domain tools for 2 targets and 2 keyword tools for 2 keywords: 8 lookups.

Output

One dataset item per lookup, with the tool, your input and the tool's fields:

{
  "input": "github.com",
  "tool": "authority",
  "query": {"target": "github.com", "mode": "subdomains"},
  "source": "https://ahrefs.com/website-authority-checker",
  "found": true,
  "domainRating": 97.0,
  "backlinks": 4691419106,
  "referringDomains": 2418604,
  "dofollowBacklinksPercent": 91,
  "dofollowReferringDomainsPercent": 95
}

Other tools add topBacklinks (backlinks), organicTraffic, trafficValueUsd, trafficHistory, topPages, topCountries, topKeywords (traffic), inbound / outbound (broken links), difficulty, referringDomainsToRank, results (keyword difficulty, SERP), ideas, questionIdeas, totalIdeas (keywords).

The key-value store also holds ERRORS - lookups Ahrefs had no data for, or that failed, with the reason. These are not billed.

Pricing

$3.00 per 1000 lookups. One lookup is one tool for one domain or keyword. You pay only for lookups that returned data.

Notes

• The data is what Ahrefs' free tools show signed out: the top 20 backlinks, top 5 pages, countries and keywords, 20 keyword ideas and 20 question ideas per keyword, the top 10 SERP results. For full exports you need an Ahrefs subscription.
• A domain or keyword Ahrefs has no data for is reported in ERRORS and not charged.
• This actor is not affiliated with Ahrefs.