Similarweb

Similarweb provides services in Market Intelligence, Web traffic, Competitive intelligence and Business intelligence for international corporations. Through its main platform called Similarweb, it uses big data technologies to collect, measure, analyze and provide user engagement statistics for websites and mobile apps.

How to Connect

There are two ways to connect to Similarweb: via the Sources connection wizard in the Web UI (recommended), or using SQL statements in the CData Virtuality Studio or the Code Editor in the Web UI. Here, we describe the first way; for the second way, see the subpage.

1. Go to the Sources tab and click + New Source:

2. Find the Similarweb button in the list of connectors or type ‘similar’ in the search field:

3. Contact the support team via chat to connect similarweb.

Usage 

The Similarweb APIconnector introduces a new virtual schema similarweb that contains the following stored procedures:

In addition to these public API procedures, there are a couple of views in another virtual schema similarweb_examples that shows an exemplary usage of the public API:

If not needed, you can delete all the example views directly by dropping similarweb_examples.