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🔗 Ahrefs Free Tools Scraper

🚀 Pull SEO metrics from Ahrefs free tools without an Ahrefs subscription. Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, keyword difficulty. Camoufox-driven widget automation.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-01 · 📊 9 fields per check · 🔗 4 free tools · ⭐ DR + backlinks + KD · 🦊 Camoufox UI driver

The Ahrefs Free Tools Scraper drives the public Ahrefs widget UI through a Camoufox browser and returns Domain Rating, URL Rating, total backlinks, referring domains, dofollow backlinks, organic traffic, organic keywords, and keyword-difficulty metrics. Switch between domain and keyword tools per run.

Ahrefs runs one of the largest backlink and SEO datasets in the industry, with their public link index updated every few minutes. Their public free tools expose enough metrics for everyday SEO decisions but are gated by anti-bot. This Actor automates the widget flow so you can pull DR, backlinks, and keyword data on a list of targets without a paid Ahrefs subscription.

📋 What the Ahrefs Free Tools Scraper does

Five workflows in a single run:

• 🌐 Website Authority Checker. Domain Rating, URL Rating, total backlinks, referring domains, dofollow share, organic traffic, organic keywords.
• 🔗 Backlink Checker. Backlink count and top referring domains for a target URL.
• 📈 Keyword Difficulty Checker. KD score (0-100) plus search volume and parent topic.
• 💡 Keyword Generator. Suggestion list with volume and KD per suggestion.
• 🌍 Country routing. ISO country code routes the keyword tools through the matching index.

Each row reports the target (domain or keyword), tool name, country (for keyword tools), Domain Rating, URL Rating, backlinks, referring domains, dofollow backlinks, organic traffic, organic keywords, search volume, difficulty, and a check timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Ahrefs is the de-facto standard for SEO link metrics. A monthly Ahrefs seat costs hundreds of dollars. Their free tools expose the same DR and backlinks data, just behind anti-bot. This Actor automates the free-tool flow so you can pull SEO data at pay-per-event pricing instead of subscription pricing.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

⚙️ Input

Example: 10 domains for the Website Authority Checker.

{
"maxItems":10,
"tool":"website-authority-checker",
"targets":["apify.com","github.com","stackoverflow.com","vercel.com","netlify.com"]
}

Example: keyword-difficulty check for a list of seed terms.

{
"maxItems":10,
"tool":"keyword-difficulty-checker",
"targets":["web scraping","browser automation","seo audit"],
"country":"us"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Ahrefs serves the free tools behind hCaptcha plus signed JWTs. The widget submission flow works end-to-end via Camoufox; metric extraction succeeds when no captcha is shown. v1 returns one record per target; metric values may be null when Ahrefs gates a specific request. Cold start is around 25 seconds per target.

📊 Output

Each check record contains 9 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 In a single 76-second run the Actor completed Domain Rating checks for 3 domains via the Camoufox-driven UI.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Same widget flow Ahrefs offers as free lead-magnet tools, automated for bulk targets.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "Ahrefs Free Tools" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Pick a tool and targets. Domain or keyword tool, list of targets.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 3-target run typically completes in 70 to 90 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🔌 Automating Ahrefs Free Tools Scraper

Run this Actor on a schedule, from your codebase, or inside another tool:

• Node.js SDK: see Apify JavaScript client for programmatic runs.
• Python SDK: see Apify Python client for the same flow in Python.
• HTTP API: see Apify API docs for raw REST integration.

Schedule weekly DR checks against a list of competitor domains from the Apify Console. Pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, BigQuery, or your own webhook with the built-in integrations.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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• Make - drop run results into 1,800+ apps.
• Zapier - trigger automations off completed runs.
• Slack - post run summaries to a channel.
• Google Sheets - sync each run into a spreadsheet.
• Webhooks - notify your own services on run finish.
• Airbyte - load runs into Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres.

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Ahrefs is a registered trademark of Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ahrefs. It uses only the public free-tool widgets that Ahrefs offers to any web visitor as lead-magnet tools.