Anchors

A manual timeout duration in seconds.

The number of results to return.

A column to order results by. See response schema for valid column identifiers.

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

anchor: The clickable words in a link that point to a URL.
type: string

discovered_status: The reason the link was discovered during the last crawl: the page was crawled for the first time, the link was added to the page, or the link re-appeared after being removed.
type: string nullable
enum: "pagefound" "linkfound" "linkrestored"

dofollow_links: The number of links with a given anchor to your target that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute.
type: integer

domain_rating: The strength of a domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
type: float

drop_reason: The reason we removed the link from our index.
type: string nullable
enum: "manual" "noratingunused" "notop" "tooold" "oldunavailable" "rescursive" "duplicate" "nxdomain" "malformed" "blockedport" "disallowed" "unlinked"

first_seen: The date we first found a link with a given anchor to your target.
type: datetime

is_content: The link was found in the biggest piece of content on the page.
type: boolean

is_dofollow: The link has no special nofollow attribute.
type: boolean

is_homepage_link: The link was found on the homepage of a referring website.
type: boolean

is_nofollow: The link or the referring page has the nofollow attribute set.
type: boolean

is_non_html: The link points to a URL with non-HTML content.
type: boolean

is_root_domain: The domain name is a root domain name.
type: boolean

is_spam: Indicates whether the backlink comes from a known spammy domain.
type: boolean

is_sponsored: The link has the Sponsored attribute set in the referring page HTML.
type: boolean

is_ugc: The link has the User Generated Content attribute set in the referring page HTML.
type: boolean

languages: The languages listed in the referring page metadata or detected by the crawler to appear in the HTML.
type: array(string)

last_seen: The date we discovered the last backlink with a given anchor was lost.
type: datetime nullable

len_url_redirect: The number of redirect chain URLs.
type: integer

link_type: The kind of the backlink.
type: string
enum: "redirect" "frame" "text" "form" "canonical" "alternate" "rss" "image"

linked_domains: The number of unique root domains linked from the referring page.
type: integer

links_external: The number of external links from the referring page.
type: integer

links_to_target: The number of inbound backlinks your target has with a given anchor.
type: integer

lost_links: The number of backlinks with a given anchor lost during the selected time period.
type: integer

lost_reason: The reason the link was lost during the last crawl.
type: string nullable
enum: "removedfromhtml" "notcanonical" "noindex" "pageredirected" "pageerror" "lostredirect" "notfound"

new_links: The number of new backlinks with a given anchor found during the selected time period.
type: integer

noindex: The referring page has the noindex meta attribute.
type: boolean

positions: The number of keywords that the referring page ranks for in the top 100 positions.
type: integer

positions_source_domain: The number of keywords that the referring domain ranks for in the top 100 positions.
type: integer

powered_by: Web technologies used to build and serve the referring page content.
type: array(string)

refdomains (5 units): The number of unique domains linking to your target with a given anchor.
type: integer

refdomains_source (5 units): The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring page.
type: integer

refpages: The number of pages containing a link with a given anchor to your target.
type: integer

root_domain_name: The root domain name of the referring domain, not including subdomains.
type: string

snippet_left: The snippet of text appearing just before the link.
type: string

snippet_right: The snippet of text appearing just after the link.
type: string

source_page_author: The author of the referring page.
type: string nullable

title: The html title of the referring page.
type: string

top_domain_rating: The highest Domain Rating (DR) counted out of all referring domains. DR shows the strength of a website’s backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
type: float

traffic_domain (10 units): The referring domain's estimated monthly organic traffic from search.
type: integer

traffic_page (10 units): The referring page's estimated monthly organic traffic from search.
type: integer

url_from: The URL of the page containing a link to your target.
type: string

url_redirect: A redirect chain the target URL of the link points to.
type: array(url)

url_redirect_with_target: The target URL of the link with its redirect chain.
type: array(string)

url_to: The URL the backlink points to.
type: string

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

The protocol of your target.

The target of the search: a domain or a URL.

The scope of the search based on the target you entered.

A time frame to add lost backlinks to the report. Choose between live (no history), since:<date> (history since a specified date), and all_time (full history). The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD format.

The output format.