Similarweb Traffic and Rank Scraper

Similarweb Traffic and Rank Scraper: visits, ranks and traffic mix for any domain

Give it a list of domains and get back the public Similarweb snapshot for each one: global, country and category rank, monthly visits, bounce rate, pages per visit, time on site, where the traffic came from and which countries it came from. No Similarweb account and no API key.

This is the public snapshot, which means it is a monthly figure and it lags. The row tells you which month it describes in snapshotDate, so check that field before you treat a number as current.

🔍 What Similarweb Traffic and Rank Scraper does

You paste domains. It normalises each one, drops duplicates, and asks Similarweb's public data endpoint for the snapshot it publishes for that site. What comes back is the same set of numbers you see on a Similarweb site overview page: the three ranks, estimated visits, the four engagement figures, the traffic-source split and the top countries.

Domains are fetched in parallel, three at a time by default, and you can push that to ten. Every domain produces a row whether it worked or not, so a list of 100 gives you 100 rows and you never have to work out which ones silently vanished.

It does not invent numbers. When Similarweb answers with something that is not usable data, the row says so in errorCode and leaves the metrics out rather than filling them with zeros.

📥 What you give it

{
  "domains": ["nasa.gov", "github.com", "apify.com"],
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 15
}

IP addresses, localhost, internal suffixes and URLs with credentials in them are rejected before any request goes out, and come back as a BAD_INPUT row.

📤 What you get back

A real row for nasa.gov:

{
  "ok": true,
  "domain": "nasa.gov",
  "globalRank": 1468,
  "countryRank": 924,
  "categoryRank": 3,
  "totalVisits": 22443884,
  "bounceRate": 51.85,
  "pagesPerVisit": 8.18963223230699,
  "visitDuration": 184.2251173400256,
  "trafficSources": {
    "SearchOrganic": 0.4413234435566554, "Direct": 0.3788197225214602,
    "Referrals": 0.0688418871803049, "SocialOrganic": 0.0518356638534659,
    "GenAi": 0.02246646486027501, "SocialPaid": 0.014864511434090441,
    "Mail": 0.012841142217370817, "DisplayAds": 0.007721402798816594,
    "SearchPaid": 0.0010906791330182425, "Affiliate": 0.0001950824445423099
  },
  "countryShares": [
    { "Country": 840, "CountryCode": "US", "Value": 0.477063909562973 },
    { "Country": 250, "CountryCode": "FR", "Value": 0.0532218179406331 },
    { "Country": 356, "CountryCode": "IN", "Value": 0.04886864781900952 }
  ],
  "category": "science_and_education/science_and_education",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-07-01T00:00:00+00:00",
  "estimatedMonthlyVisits": { "2026-05-01": 25615117, "2026-06-01": 18046103, "2026-07-01": 22443884 },
  "endpointStatus": 200,
  "proxyUsed": false,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-22T04:32:32.199Z"
}

The country list is cut short above; the row carries five.

🧾 Reading the output

Every domain you sent produces exactly one row. ok tells you which kind it is.

Run it with no domains at all and you get one labelled sample row, so you can see the shape before you commit a list.

Failure rows carry endpointStatus, contentType, bodyBytes and a 300-character bodySnippet, which is usually enough to tell "this site has no data" apart from "Similarweb said no today".

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Similarweb Traffic and Rank Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put your sites into Domains, one per line. nasa.gov and https://nasa.gov/ both work. 3. Leave Concurrency and Request timeout alone unless a run came back short. 4. Click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$2.40 per 1,000 domains on the free plan, falling with your Apify plan to $0.65 per 1,000 on Diamond.

You pay per domain that came back with real numbers. Duplicates are removed before anything is fetched, the sample row is not charged, and a domain that came back ok: false is not charged either.

💡 What people use it for

• Sizing a list of prospects before anyone writes to them, so the 200-visit sites and the

20-million-visit sites get different treatment.

• Checking where a competitor's traffic actually comes from. A site living on SearchOrganic and a

site living on DisplayAds are two different businesses.

• Watching the GenAi share across a set of sites, which is the one channel that has moved fastest.
• Pulling countryShares for a shortlist before deciding which market to translate a page into.
• A monthly scheduled run over the same domain list, joined on domain and snapshotDate, so you

build the history that the public snapshot does not give you.

🚧 What it does not do

• No live numbers. This is a monthly snapshot and snapshotDate is often the month before last.
• No history beyond three months. estimatedMonthlyVisits holds three points and that is all

that is published.

• No keyword data, no paid-search detail, no referring-site list, no audience demographics.
• Small sites often have nothing. Similarweb does not publish estimates for low-traffic domains,

and those come back SIMILARWEB_NO_METRICS rather than as zeros.

• Estimates, not analytics. These are Similarweb's modelled figures, not the site's own numbers,

and they can be well off for any single domain.

• Subdomains and paths are reduced to the domain. blog.example.com is not looked up separately

from example.com.

• Similarweb can refuse. When it does you get a row saying so, with the status and a snippet of

what came back instead. Those rows are not charged.

• Rows are written at the end of the run, not one by one, so a run that hits its time limit

writes nothing. Keep big lists inside the limit rather than sending 100 slow domains at once.

🧭 Which research scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Similarweb subscription? No. This reads the public snapshot, so there is nothing to log into and no quota to manage.

Why is the data a month or two old? Because that is what Similarweb publishes publicly. The snapshotDate on every row tells you exactly which month you are looking at.

Why did my domain come back with no numbers? Most often the site is too small for Similarweb to publish an estimate. The errorCode says SIMILARWEB_NO_METRICS and you are not charged for it.

Are the visit numbers accurate? They are estimates from a model, not the site's own analytics. Good for comparing sites against each other, weaker as an absolute figure for any one site.

Can I track a domain over time? Yes. Schedule it monthly and keep domain plus snapshotDate as your key. That is the usual reason people run this on a schedule.

Is this legal? These are public figures on public pages. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the domain and the run ID. If you got an ok: false row, its errorCode and bodySnippet usually explain it without anyone digging.