Similarweb Public Data Snapshot 🌐 [No API] — Only $2/1K 💰

You need to know whether a site is a real, indexed, going concern before you pitch it, buy a link on it, or benchmark against it.

No API key · no subscription · no cookies · one row per domain

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🔎 Where the data comes from — read this first

This actor does not log into Similarweb and does not query Similarweb's API. It queries a search engine (DuckDuckGo) for the public Similarweb report page of each domain and parses the search-result snippet that comes back. Every row carries dataSource: "duckduckgo-serp-snippet" so the origin is visible in your dataset.

That means: you get whatever metrics Similarweb happens to have published into that public snippet — often the global rank and a visits figure, sometimes nothing but the page title. Any metric the snippet does not state comes back as null. No placeholder is ever substituted for a missing measurement.

If you need the full Similarweb metric set — country rank, pages/visit, visit duration, traffic channel mix — this actor cannot give it to you and neither can any no-login scraper. That requires a Similarweb subscription.

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⚡ Highlights

• No API key, no login, no cookies.
• Honest nulls — a field is either measured from the snippet or null. Never a stand-in constant.
• Unbilled diagnostics — a domain with no indexed snippet is written to the dataset labeled _dataQuality: "diagnostic" and is not charged.
• $0.002 per domain that returned data ($2.00 per 1,000).

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
domains	array	Domains or URLs to look up (e.g. ["apify.com", "openai.com"])
maxDomains	integer	Cap on domains processed (default 10, max 500)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy options — optional, reduces search blocking

📤 Output

A domain whose snippet stated a rank and a visits figure:

{
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "siteName": "APIFY",
  "icon": "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=apify.com&sz=128",
  "globalRank": 21850,
  "categoryRank": "#450 in Programming and Developer Software",
  "totalVisits": "2.4M",
  "bounceRate": "42.5%",
  "seoSnippet": "apify.com is ranked #21850 globally ...",
  "dataSource": "duckduckgo-serp-snippet",
  "similarwebUrl": "https://www.similarweb.com/website/apify.com/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T02:00:00.000Z"
}

A domain whose snippet stated no metrics — this is a normal, common result, and it is still billed because the lookup did return an indexed page:

{
  "domain": "example-smallsite.com",
  "siteName": "EXAMPLE-SMALLSITE",
  "globalRank": null,
  "categoryRank": null,
  "totalVisits": null,
  "bounceRate": null,
  "seoSnippet": "example-smallsite.com Traffic Analytics & Market Share",
  "dataSource": "duckduckgo-serp-snippet",
  "similarwebUrl": "https://www.similarweb.com/website/example-smallsite.com/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-27T02:00:00.000Z"
}

A domain with nothing indexed at all — not billed:

{
  "domain": "nothing-indexed.example",
  "_dataQuality": "diagnostic",
  "message": "[DIAGNÓSTICO] Nenhum snippet do Similarweb indexado foi encontrado para \"nothing-indexed.example\".",
  "potential_causes": ["..."],
  "remediations": ["..."]
}

✅ Capabilities & Limits

Stated up front, so you do not pay a run to find out.

Built here: the metrics are parsed out of a search-result snippet, not out of a Similarweb page. Snippet wording changes without notice, so on any given run a domain that returned globalRank yesterday can return null today while still being billed. Treat a non-null number as a bonus and seoSnippet — the raw text the parse was made from — as the field you can always rely on.

Input / feature	Supported	Notes
Root domain	✅	one row per domain
Global rank	⚠️	only when the snippet states it, else null
Monthly visits	⚠️	only when the snippet states it, else null
Bounce rate	⚠️	rarely present in a snippet; usually null
Category rank	⚠️	only when the snippet states it, else null
Country rank	❌	not present in the public snippet
Pages per visit / visit duration	❌	not present in the public snippet
Traffic channel mix (direct/search/social/referral/mail/display)	❌	requires a Similarweb subscription
Top countries breakdown	❌	requires a Similarweb subscription
Historical series	❌	current snippet only
Full URL / single page	❌	lookup is domain-level
Exact analytics numbers	❌	these are Similarweb's modeled estimates, never the site's real GA data

🎯 Use cases

1. Bulk triage — separate domains with a public traffic profile from those with none
2. Link buying — a domain with no indexed Similarweb page at all is a red flag worth catching cheaply
3. Prospect qualification — pull the rank where it is stated, before spending time on a lead

❓ FAQ

Does this query Similarweb? No. It queries a search engine for Similarweb's public report page and parses the result snippet. See "Where the data comes from" above.

Are these the site's real numbers? No. Where a number is present, it is Similarweb's public modeled estimate — directionally useful, never exact. Anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.

Why is totalVisits null for my domain? The snippet did not state it. The actor returns null instead of inventing a value.

Do I need a Similarweb account? No API key and no subscription.

💰 Pricing

Pay Per Event — event domain-analyzed.

Metric	Cost
Per domain that returned data	$0.002
Per 1,000 domains	$2.00

You are not charged for a domain that returned nothing. A domain with no indexed snippet is written to the dataset as a labeled diagnostic row and excluded from the event count; if every domain in the run fails, the run returns a single unbilled diagnostic and charges nothing at all.

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🇧🇷 Português

Este actor não acessa a API do Similarweb nem faz login nele. Ele consulta um buscador (DuckDuckGo) pela página pública de relatório do Similarweb de cada domínio e extrai as métricas do snippet do resultado de busca. Cada linha traz dataSource: "duckduckgo-serp-snippet".

Consequência: você recebe as métricas que o snippet efetivamente declarar — normalmente rank global e uma cifra de visitas, às vezes apenas o título da página. Métrica que o snippet não declara volta como null — nunca é substituída por um valor de reserva. Mix de canais de tráfego, rank por país, páginas por visita e duração de visita não estão disponíveis por esta via; exigem assinatura do Similarweb.

Domínio sem snippet indexado vira linha de diagnóstico rotulada e não é cobrado. Se nenhum domínio da execução retornar dado, a execução devolve um diagnóstico único e não cobra nada.

Campos de entrada, saída, limites e FAQ estão nas seções em inglês acima.