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Ahrefs Top Websites Scraper

Scrape top-ranking websites, trending websites, and detailed website analytics from Ahrefs Top. Extract search traffic data, domain ratings, backlink profiles, keyword rankings, and traffic trends for any website — filtered by country and category.

What does Ahrefs Top Websites Scraper do?

This actor extracts website ranking and analytics data from Ahrefs Top in three modes:

• Top Ranking — Scrape the ranked list of top websites with search traffic estimates, rank changes, and categories. Filter by country (190+ countries) and category (25+ categories).
• Top Trending — Get the fastest-growing and fastest-declining websites, with traffic deltas and rank movement.
• Website Details — Scrape in-depth analytics for specific domains: domain rating, backlink profile, search traffic metrics, top keywords, competitors, traffic history charts, and more.

You can also combine ranking/trending with details by enabling Include Website Details, which enriches each result with full analytics data.

How much does it cost?

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

You can set a spending limit on each run to control costs. The actor stops automatically when your event charge limit is reached.

Input

Input examples

Top 500 finance websites in the United States:

{
"mode":"top_ranking",
"country":"united states",
"category":"finance",
"top_ranking_result_limit":500
}

Trending websites worldwide with full details:

{
"mode":"top_trending",
"country":"worldwide",
"category":"all categories",
"top_list_include_website_details":true
}

Detailed analytics for specific domains:

{
"mode":"website_details",
"website_details":[
"wikipedia.org",
"github.com",
"reddit.com"
]
}

Important: When using website_details mode with your own list of domains, be aware that Ahrefs Top only has detail data for popular/well-known websites. For lesser-known domains, Ahrefs Top returns no data (404), but you will still be charged for the request since we incur costs by sending it. Prefer using top_ranking or top_trending mode with top_list_include_website_details enabled.

Output

Top Ranking output

Each result contains the website's position in the Ahrefs ranking:

{
"rank":1,
"delta":0,
"deltaDirection":"same",
"website":"google.com",
"category":"Internet & Telecom",
"searchTraffic":"16.1B",
"searchTrafficDelta":0,
"searchTrafficDeltaDirection":"down"
}

Top Trending output

Same fields as Top Ranking plus:

Website Details output

Detailed analytics for a single domain:

{
"website":"github.com",
"websiteDescription":"GitHub is where people build software...",
"websiteSubtitle":"github.com",
"dataDate":"March 2026",
"domainRating":97,
"trafficRankWorldwide":{
"rank":42,
"label":"Worldwide",
"delta":2,
"deltaDirection":"up"
},
"trafficRankCountry":{
"rank":28,
"label":"United States",
"delta":1,
"deltaDirection":"up"
},
"trafficRankCategory":{
"rank":3,
"label":"Computers & Electronics",
"delta":0,
"deltaDirection":"same"
},
"searchTrafficImpressions":{
"value":494800000,
"delta":8700000,
"deltaDirection":"up"
},
"searchTrafficValue":{
"value":300000000,
"delta":0,
"deltaDirection":"same"
},
"searchKeywords":{
"value":21000000,
"delta":0,
"deltaDirection":"same"
},
"linkingWebsites":{
"value":7800000,
"delta":0,
"deltaDirection":"same"
},
"topCompetitors":[
{
"website":"stackoverflow.com",
"traffic":"283.1M",
"trafficDelta":"+15.7M",
"rank":64
}
],
"similarlyRanked":[],
"topKeywords":[
{
"keyword":"github",
"volume":"30.4M",
"volumeDelta":null,
"traffic":"7.8M",
"trafficDelta":null,
"position":"1",
"positionDelta":null
}
],
"searchTrafficData":[
{
"date":"2024-01",
"search_traffic":450000000,
"search_traffic_value":280000000
}
],
"referringDomainsData":[
{
"date":"2024-01",
"value":7500000
}
]
}

Enriched output (Top Ranking/Trending + Details)

When Include Website Details is enabled, each ranking or trending result includes a website_details field containing the Website Details object described above if Ahrefstop has data for this domain:

{
"rank":42,
"delta":2,
"deltaDirection":"up",
"website":"github.com",
"category":"Computers & Electronics",
"searchTraffic":"494.8M",
"searchTrafficDelta":8700000,
"searchTrafficDeltaDirection":"up",
"website_details":{
"websiteDescription":"GitHub is where people build software...",
"domainRating":97,
"topKeywords":[],
"searchTrafficData":[],
"..."
}
}

Use cases

• SEO research — Analyze top-performing websites in any niche to understand competitive landscapes
• Market intelligence — Track which websites are gaining or losing traffic in specific countries and categories
• Competitor analysis — Compare domain ratings, backlink profiles, and keyword rankings across competitors
• Trend monitoring — Identify fast-growing websites and emerging players in your industry
• Lead generation — Build lists of top websites by category and country for outreach campaigns
• Investment research — Evaluate the organic search presence and growth trajectory of digital businesses