Domains

The Domains API gives you access to data on millions of indexed websites. You can look up individual domains, search with filters, or fetch multiple domains at once.

The domain model

Each domain object contains metadata about a website including its title, language, categories, technologies used, and traffic rank.

Properties

  • Name
    name
    Type
    string
    Description

    The domain name (e.g., "wordpress.org").

  • Name
    title
    Type
    string
    Description

    The page title of the website.

  • Name
    meta_description
    Type
    string
    Description

    The meta description of the website, if available.

  • Name
    language
    Type
    string
    Description

    The primary language of the website (ISO 639-1 code).

  • Name
    categories
    Type
    string[]
    Description

    Array of content categories the site belongs to.

  • Name
    technologies
    Type
    string[]
    Description

    Array of technologies detected on the site.

  • Name
    id
    Type
    integer
    Description

    Unique internal identifier for the domain.

  • Name
    rank
    Type
    integer
    Description

    Traffic rank of the domain (1 = highest traffic).


GET/json/api/v1/domain/:name

Get a domain

Retrieve detailed information about a specific domain by name.

Path parameters

  • Name
    name
    Type
    string
    Description

    The domain name to look up (e.g., "wordpress.org").

Request

GET
/json/api/v1/domain/:name
curl -s https://websitedata.app/json/api/v1/domain/wordpress.org \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {your-api-key}"

Response

{
  "domain": {
    "name": "wordpress.org",
    "title": "Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS – WordPress.org",
    "meta_description": "San Francisco Dec 2, 2025 | Learn more Watch State of the Word, the annual keynote address live from San Francisco. December 2nd at 8PM UTC. Catch up on all the news about WordPress from State of the Word 2025, San Francisco. Meet WordPress The open source publishing platform of choice for millions of websites…",
    "language": "en",
    "categories": [
      "/Business & Industrial",
      "/Internet & Telecom/Web Services/Web Design & Development",
      "/Internet & Telecom",
      "/Internet & Telecom/Web Services"
    ],
    "technologies": [
      "Google Ads Pixel",
      "Google Adsense",
      "Google Tag Manager",
      "Wordpress"
    ],
    "tld1": "wordpress.org",
    "id": 143304499,
    "rank": 17
  }
}

POST/json/api/v1/domain/search

Search domains

Search across all indexed domains with optional filters and cursor-based pagination. Results are ordered by traffic rank by default.

Request body

  • Name
    pageSize
    Type
    integer
    Description

    Number of results to return per page. Maximum depends on your plan.

  • Name
    searchAfter
    Type
    array
    Description

    Cursor from a previous response to fetch the next page.

Response fields

  • Name
    results
    Type
    Domain[]
    Description

    Array of domain objects matching your query.

  • Name
    search_after
    Type
    array
    Description

    Cursor value for fetching the next page.

  • Name
    total
    Type
    integer
    Description

    Total number of matching domains.

Request

POST
/json/api/v1/domain/search
curl -s -X POST https://websitedata.app/json/api/v1/domain/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {your-api-key}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pageSize": 2}'

Response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "www.youtube.com",
      "title": "YouTube",
      "meta_description": "Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.",
      "language": "en",
      "categories": [
        "/Arts & Entertainment/Online Media",
        "/Arts & Entertainment",
        "/Arts & Entertainment/TV & Video/Online Video",
        "/Arts & Entertainment/TV & Video"
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Google Tag Manager",
        "YouTube Player"
      ],
      "tld1": "youtube.com",
      "id": 143805739,
      "rank": 1
    },
    {
      "name": "www.wikipedia.org",
      "title": "Wikipedia",
      "meta_description": "Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.",
      "language": "en",
      "categories": [
        "/Reference",
        "/Reference/General Reference"
      ],
      "tld1": "wikipedia.org",
      "id": 149070280,
      "rank": 2
    }
  ],
  "search_after": [
    2,
    149070280
  ],
  "total": 193933606
}

POST/json/api/v1/domain/bulk

Bulk lookup

Fetch data for multiple domains in a single request. Domains not found in the index are silently omitted from the response.

Request body

  • Name
    domains
    Type
    string[]
    Description

    Array of domain names to look up. Maximum 100 domains per request.

Request

POST
/json/api/v1/domain/bulk
curl -s -X POST https://websitedata.app/json/api/v1/domain/bulk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {your-api-key}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domains": ["wordpress.org", "github.com"]}'

Response

{
  "domains": [
    {
      "name": "wordpress.org",
      "title": "Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS – WordPress.org",
      "meta_description": "San Francisco Dec 2, 2025 | Learn more Watch State of the Word, the annual keynote address live from San Francisco. December 2nd at 8PM UTC. Catch up on all the news about WordPress from State of the Word 2025, San Francisco. Meet WordPress The open source publishing platform of choice for millions of websites…",
      "language": "en",
      "categories": [
        "/Business & Industrial",
        "/Internet & Telecom/Web Services/Web Design & Development",
        "/Internet & Telecom",
        "/Internet & Telecom/Web Services"
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Google Ads Pixel",
        "Google Adsense",
        "Google Tag Manager",
        "Wordpress"
      ],
      "tld1": "wordpress.org",
      "id": 143304499,
      "rank": 17
    },
    {
      "name": "github.com",
      "title": "GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub",
      "meta_description": "Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.",
      "language": "en",
      "categories": [
        "/Science/Computer Science",
        "/Science",
        "/Computers & Electronics/Programming",
        "/Computers & Electronics",
        "/Computers & Electronics/Software"
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Contentful"
      ],
      "tld1": "github.com",
      "id": 61838105,
      "rank": 14
    }
  ]
}

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