Broken Backlinks
API + MCPQuery parameters
A manual timeout duration in seconds.
The number of results to return.
A column to order results by. See the response schema for valid column identifiers, except for http_code_target, last_visited_target, link_group_count, which are not supported in order_by for this endpoint.
The filter expression. The following column identifiers are recognized (this differs from the identifiers recognized by the select parameter).
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.
The backlinks grouping mode.
The output format.
Responses
The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database, with rank #1 being the strongest.
The strength of the target domain's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database, with rank #1 being the strongest.
The alt attribute of the link.
The clickable words in a link that point to a URL.
(5 units) The number of unique class_c subnets linking to the referring page.
The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
The character set encoding of the referring page HTML.
The date the referring page URL was first discovered.
The date we first found a backlink to your target on a given referring page.
The return code from HTTP protocol returned during the referring page crawl.
The return code from HTTP protocol returned during the target page crawl.
The link was discovered without executing javascript and rendering the page.
The referring domain IP address.
The link with the rel=“alternate” attribute.
The link with the rel=“canonical” attribute.
The link was found in the biggest piece of content on the page.
The link has no special nofollow attribute.
The link was found in a form HTML tag.
The link was found in an iframe HTML tag.
The link is a regular link that has an image inside their href attribute.
The link or the referring page has the nofollow attribute set.
The link pointing to your target via a redirect.
The referring domain name is a root domain name.
The target domain name is a root domain name.
The link was found in an RSS feed.
Indicates whether the backlink comes from a known spammy domain.
The link has the Sponsored attribute set in the referring page HTML.
The link is a standard href hyperlink.
The link has the User Generated Content attribute set in the referring page HTML.
The link was discovered after executing javascript and rendering the page.
The languages listed in the referring page metadata or detected by the crawler to appear in the HTML.
The date we discovered that the link was lost.
The date we last re-crawled the referring page to verify the backlink is alive.
The date we last re-crawled the target page to verify that it is broken.
The number of backlinks that were grouped together based on the aggregation parameter. This field cannot be used with aggregation 'all'.
The kind of the backlink.
The number of unique root domains linked from the referring domain.
The number of unique root domains linked from the referring page.
The number of unique root domains linked from the target domain.
The number of external links from the referring page.
The number of internal links from the referring page.
The complete referring domain name, including subdomains.
The complete target domain name, including subdomains.
Comma-separated list of AI-predicted hierarchical category paths for the referring page. Each value is a slash-prefixed path (e.g. /Business_and_Industrial/Advertising_and_Marketing/Marketing).
The size in bytes of the referring page content.
Comma-separated list of AI-predicted hierarchical page type paths for the referring page. Each value is a slash-prefixed path (e.g. /Article/How_to).
The network port of the referring page URL.
The network port of the target page URL.
The number of keywords that the referring page ranks for in the top 100 positions.
Web technologies used to build and serve the referring page content.
The HTTP status code of a referring page pointing to your target via a redirect.
The HTTP status codes returned by the target redirecting URL or redirect chain.
(5 units) The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring page.
(5 units) The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring domain.
(5 units) The number of unique referring domains linking to the target domain.
The root domain name of the referring domain, not including subdomains.
The root domain name of the target domain, not including subdomains.
The snippet of text appearing just before the link.
The snippet of text appearing just after the link.
The author of the referring page.
The html title of the referring page.
The top level domain class of the referring domain.
The top level domain class of the target domain.
(10 units) The referring page's estimated monthly organic traffic from search.
(10 units) The referring domain's estimated monthly organic traffic from search.
The URL of the page containing a link to your target.
The referring page URL optimized for use as a filter.
The strength of the referring page's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale.
A redirect chain the target URL of the link points to.
The target URL of the link with its redirect chain.
The URL the backlink points to.
The target page URL optimized for use as a filter.