BuiltWith Trends API

Introduction Authentication Get Technology Example Reference API Libraries Code Examples Error Codes Terms of Use

Introduction

The BuiltWith Trends API provides XML and JSON access to the technology trends data found on BuiltWith Trends.

The general access method is as follows -
https://api.builtwith.com/trends/v6/api.[xml|json]?KEY=[YOUR KEY]&TECH=[TECHNOLOGY NAME]

Authentication

You must provide your API key in each lookup. See the examples for how this works.

Working Examples

XML Get Technology Usage information for Shopify Example
https://api.builtwith.com/trends/v6/api.xml?KEY=[YOUR KEY]&TECH=Shopify

JSON Get Technology Usage information for Magento Example
https://api.builtwith.com/trends/v6/api.json?KEY=[YOUR KEY]&TECH=Magento

Reference

Parameters

The following GET parameters can be supplied for lookups

Name	Examples	Required
KEY	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Sign up for Free or Login to get a key.	Yes
TECH	Google-Analytics The name of a technology, replaces spaces with dashes (-).	Yes
DATE	2016-01-20 Totals will be the closest to this date - providing the ability to get historical totals.	No

Responses

The Trends API will respond with a document in the format -
Trends[Tech]

Trends

Trends only contain Tech objects, they do not have any properties. They will contain a maximum of 1 Tech object.

Tech

The Tech object contains the meta information for a technology trend, its fields are explained below.

Name	Example	Description
Name	Site Meter	The technology name
Description	Site Meter's comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give...	The technology description
Link	https://sitemeter.com/	The technology link
Icon	https://d2uu9ep1796sii.cloudfront.net/thumb/e6-59-87-q5-e8-94/n	Icon link - please do not hotlink.
IsPremium	Yes If the technology is premium - i.e. SaaS	Yes, No or Maybe
Tag	analytics	The super tag group
Categories	A/B Testing,Marketing Automation	The sub categories
TrendsLink	https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Site-Meter	Link to our trends data
Coverage->TenK	76	Amount of sites in current Top 10k Traffic Rank
Coverage->HundredK	774	Amount of sites in current Top 100k Traffic Rank
Coverage->Mil	5074	Amount of sites in current 1 million Traffic Rank
Coverage->Internet	113083	Amount of sites in last Entire Internet run
Coverage->Live	93499	Amount of live sites in our Pro database
Coverage->Historical	49872	Amount of historical sites in our Pro database

API Libraries

Node.js NPM
https://www.npmjs.com/package/builtwith-api
NPM package by Zach Caceres - https://github.com/zcaceres/builtwith-api
Microsoft .NET Nuget
https://www.nuget.org/packages/BuiltWith/
C# package by BuiltWith Pty Ltd - https://github.com/builtwith/BuiltWith-C-Client-API

Code Examples

JSON/XML have integrations in all modern programming languages. Here's some StackOverflow topics for various languages - Python, C#, Java, PHP, C++, TSQL and Ruby.

Error Codes

Note error messages in this format cannot be guaranteed, your implementation should also consider non-200 response codes as errors. The Lookup property will be null (json) or not provided (xml) if the error is server related. View all potential well-formed error codes.

Terms of Use

Our standard terms cover the use all of our APIs.

In general, you can use the API to enhance your product in many ways. The only limitation is you cannot resell the data as-is or provide duplicate functionality to builtwith.com and its associated services.