Cited Pages

API + MCP

GET/v3/brand-radar/cited-pages

Requests to this endpoint consume API units based on the prompts parameter: requests returning only custom prompt data are free, while requests including Ahrefs prompt data follow standard API unit pricing.

Query parameters

wherestring

The filter expression. The following column identifiers are recognized (this differs from the identifiers recognized by the select parameter).

cited_domain: The domain of a page that was used to generate the response.
type: domain

cited_domain_subdomains: The domain of a page that was used to generate the response. Any subdomain of the given domain will also match.
type: string

cited_url_exact: The URL of a page that was used to generate the response.
type: string

cited_url_prefix: The URL of a page that was used to generate the response. Any URL that starts with this prefix will match.
type: string

question: The question asked by the user.
type: string

response (10 units): The response from the model.
type: string

search_queries: The search query used by the chatbot to find information for the response. Note: if data_source does not include chatgpt or perplexity, this field will always be empty.
type: string

topic: The topic of the query.
type: string

selectstringRequired

A comma-separated list of columns to return. See response schema for valid column identifiers.

limitinteger

The number of results to return.

Default:1000

datestring

The date to search for in YYYY-MM-DD format.

countrystring

A comma-separated list of two-letter country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).

tracked_urlsstring

A comma-separated list of tracked page URLs. When provided, the response includes rows with zero citations for any tracked URLs that have no data.

report_idstring

The ID of the report to use. If one is given, other parameters are taken from the report (brand, competitors, market, country, filters). If country or filters are provided, they override the ones in the report. You can find it in the URL of your Brand Radar report in Ahrefs: https://app.ahrefs.com/brand-radar/reports/#report_id#/...

promptsstring

The type of prompts to use. If not specified, both will be used. Custom prompts require a report_id to be provided.

Allowed values:ahrefscustom

data_sourceanyRequired

A comma-separated list of chatbot models. Google models (google_ai_overviews, google_ai_mode) cannot be combined with each other or with non-Google models.

Allowed values:google_ai_overviewsgoogle_ai_modechatgptgeminiperplexitycopilotgrok

marketstring

A comma-separated list of the niche markets of your brands.

competitorsstring

A comma-separated list of competitors of your brands.

brandstring

A comma-separated list of brands to search for. At least one of brand, competitors, market or where should not be empty.

outputstring

The output format.

Allowed values:jsonphp

Responses

pagesarray<object>

mentionsarray<object>

Deprecated on 2026-02-10.

responsesinteger

The number of responses that cited the page.

urlstring

The URL of the cited page.

volumeinteger

Deprecated on 2026-03-24.