Backlinks
API + MCPQuery parameters
A comma-separated list of columns to return. 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).
A column to order results by. See the response schema for valid column identifiers, except for link_group_count, which is not supported in order_by for this endpoint.
The number of results to return.
A manual timeout duration in seconds.
The backlinks grouping mode.
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 scope of the search based on the target you entered.
The target of the search: a domain or a URL.
The protocol of your target.
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.
The new destination of a modified redirect.
The reason the redirect was considered broken during the last crawl.
The redirecting URL that was modified, causing the redirect to become broken.
(5 units) The number of unique class_c subnets linking to the referring page.
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.
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 reason we removed the link from our index.
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 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 currently does not exist anymore.
The link was discovered on the last crawl.
The link or the referring page has the nofollow attribute set.
The link pointing to your target via a redirect.
The redirected link currently does not exist anymore.
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 verified a live link to your target page.
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 reason the link was lost during the last crawl.
The complete referring domain name, including subdomains.
The complete target domain name, including subdomains.
The referring page has the noindex meta attribute.
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 date we identified the page was published
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.