SimilarTech API Reference

Getting Started

Every SimilarTech user is eligible for certain amount of monthly API credit, determined by the user's plan. Even non-paying users and users with non-API subscription plans are eligible for 10 monthly API credits, to experiment using our APIs.

Step 1: Creating your SimilarTech Account

In order to get started making APIs requests, first make sure you have created a SimilarTech user account.

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Step 2: Getting your API Key

Your monthly API credits usage and availability is placed in the account page in your user dashboard.

The API key parameter is a user-specific identification key that we use for counting your credits usage. Your personal API key can be found in your user dashboard. It must be provided for all API calls.

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Available APIs

Website Technologies Profiling

Returns a list of technologies found on a requested website domain and their categories.

Cost per successful call: 1 credit.

Request

GET

http://api.similartech.com/v1/site/{Domain}/technologies?userkey={ApiKey}&format={Format}

Parameter	Type	Description
Domain	String	The website domain for profiling
ApiKey	String	API key
Format	String	Optional. Response data format ("json" / "xml"). Default: "json".

Example Request

$ curl -i "http://api.similartech.com/v1/site/yahoo.com/technologies?userkey=0123456789abcdef&format=json"

Response

JSON / XML serialized list of technologies, where technology consists of the following fields:

Parameter	Type	Description
Id	Int	The technology Id
Name	String	The technology name
Categories	String Array	The technology categories
Coverage	float	The coverage of the technology on the website
Paying	String ['yes','no','maybe']	Does the technology costs money

Example Response

JSON XML

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 X-RateLimit-Limit: 25000 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 24989 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT Content-Length: 1934 { "site":"yahoo.com", "found":true, "technologies":[ { "id":408, "name":"eyeReturn Marketing", "categories":[ "Advertisement" ], "coverage":0.03, "paying":"no" }, { "id":279, "name":"Mediaplex", "categories":[ "Advertisement" ], "coverage":0.0, "paying":"yes" }, { "id":1371, "name":"Canonical Tag", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Meta Tags" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1491, "name":"Yahoo DNS", "categories":[ "Server", "Nameserver" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1368, "name":"Meta http-equiv", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Meta Tags" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1366, "name":"Meta Description", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Meta Tags" ], "coverage":0.78, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2376, "name":"RSS", "categories":[ "Aggregation Functionality" ], "coverage":0.21, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1411, "name":"OpenGraph Description Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.78, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1410, "name":"OpenGraph Url Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.77, "paying":"no" }, { "id":153, "name":"Adometry", "categories":[ "Advertisement" ], "coverage":0.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1409, "name":"OpenGraph Type Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.78, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1474, "name":"Theme Color Tag", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Meta Tags" ], "coverage":0.98, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2463, "name":"P3P Policy", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":0.02, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1351, "name":"Product Schema Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Schema" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2451, "name":"Open Graph Protocol", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.78, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2454, "name":"Facebook Domain Insights", "categories":[ "Analytics" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1181, "name":"Twitter", "categories":[ "Widget" ], "coverage":0.19, "paying":"no" }, { "id":211, "name":"Kenshoo", "categories":[ "Analytics" ], "coverage":0.04, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1405, "name":"OpenGraph Image Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.78, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2472, "name":"App Links", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":0.77, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1407, "name":"OpenGraph Site Name Entity", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Open Graph Tags" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2238, "name":"HTTPS", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":918, "name":"Convertro", "categories":[ "Tracker" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1126, "name":"UTF-8", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Encoding" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1872, "name":"Shockwave Flash Embed", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":0.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1125, "name":"Apache", "categories":[ "Server", "Web Server" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2466, "name":"HTML5 DocType", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":1.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":2469, "name":"X-UA-Compatible", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1122, "name":"jQuery", "categories":[ "JavaScript" ], "coverage":0.94, "paying":"no" }, { "id":728, "name":"Twitter Button", "categories":[ "Widget", "Social Sharing" ], "coverage":0.22, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1324, "name":"Apple Mobile Tags", "categories":[ "Document Standard" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1561, "name":"HTML5 SVG Tag", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "HTML Tags" ], "coverage":0.98, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1325, "name":"Meta Viewport", "categories":[ "Document Standard", "Meta Tags" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":723, "name":"Facebook Social Plugins", "categories":[ "Widget" ], "coverage":0.01, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1209, "name":"Youtube", "categories":[ "Audio Video Media" ], "coverage":0.05, "paying":"no" }, { "id":301, "name":"eBay Stats", "categories":[ "Advertisement" ], "coverage":0.0, "paying":"no" }, { "id":1212, "name":"Vimeo", "categories":[ "Audio Video Media" ], "coverage":0.0, "paying":"maybe" } ] }

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 X-RateLimit-Limit: 25000 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 24988 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT Content-Length: 3406 <TechnologiesResponse xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Site>yahoo.com</Site> <Found>true</Found> <Technologies> <TechnologyData> <Id>408</Id> <Name>eyeReturn Marketing</Name> <Categories> <Category>Advertisement</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.03</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>279</Id> <Name>Mediaplex</Name> <Categories> <Category>Advertisement</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0</Coverage> <Paying>yes</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1371</Id> <Name>Canonical Tag</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Meta Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1491</Id> <Name>Yahoo DNS</Name> <Categories> <Category>Server</Category> <Category>Nameserver</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1368</Id> <Name>Meta http-equiv</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Meta Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1366</Id> <Name>Meta Description</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Meta Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.78</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2376</Id> <Name>RSS</Name> <Categories> <Category>Aggregation Functionality</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.21</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1411</Id> <Name>OpenGraph Description Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.78</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1410</Id> <Name>OpenGraph Url Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.77</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>153</Id> <Name>Adometry</Name> <Categories> <Category>Advertisement</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1409</Id> <Name>OpenGraph Type Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.78</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1474</Id> <Name>Theme Color Tag</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Meta Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.98</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2463</Id> <Name>P3P Policy</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.02</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1351</Id> <Name>Product Schema Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Schema</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2451</Id> <Name>Open Graph Protocol</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.78</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2454</Id> <Name>Facebook Domain Insights</Name> <Categories> <Category>Analytics</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1181</Id> <Name>Twitter</Name> <Categories> <Category>Widget</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.19</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>211</Id> <Name>Kenshoo</Name> <Categories> <Category>Analytics</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.04</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1405</Id> <Name>OpenGraph Image Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.78</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2472</Id> <Name>App Links</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.77</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1407</Id> <Name>OpenGraph Site Name Entity</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Open Graph Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2238</Id> <Name>HTTPS</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>918</Id> <Name>Convertro</Name> <Categories> <Category>Tracker</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1126</Id> <Name>UTF-8</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Encoding</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1872</Id> <Name>Shockwave Flash Embed</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1125</Id> <Name>Apache</Name> <Categories> <Category>Server</Category> <Category>Web Server</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2466</Id> <Name>HTML5 DocType</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>1</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>2469</Id> <Name>X-UA-Compatible</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1122</Id> <Name>jQuery</Name> <Categories> <Category>JavaScript</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.94</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>728</Id> <Name>Twitter Button</Name> <Categories> <Category>Widget</Category> <Category>Social Sharing</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.22</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1324</Id> <Name>Apple Mobile Tags</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1561</Id> <Name>HTML5 SVG Tag</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>HTML Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.98</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1325</Id> <Name>Meta Viewport</Name> <Categories> <Category>Document Standard</Category> <Category>Meta Tags</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>723</Id> <Name>Facebook Social Plugins</Name> <Categories> <Category>Widget</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.01</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1209</Id> <Name>Youtube</Name> <Categories> <Category>Audio Video Media</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0.05</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>301</Id> <Name>eBay Stats</Name> <Categories> <Category>Advertisement</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0</Coverage> <Paying>no</Paying> </TechnologyData> <TechnologyData> <Id>1212</Id> <Name>Vimeo</Name> <Categories> <Category>Audio Video Media</Category> </Categories> <Coverage>0</Coverage> <Paying>maybe</Paying> </TechnologyData> </Technologies> </TechnologiesResponse>

Response headers

Each API response includes the following HTTP headers:

Key	Description
X-RateLimit-Limit	The amount of your total monthly API credits allowed in your current plan
X-RateLimit-Remaining	The amount of your remaining monthly API credits

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