Built-in tool
List Backlinks
List the actual pages linking to a domain or page, with anchor text, dofollow status, source authority, spam score, and first/last-seen dates.
3 creditsNo API key neededEndpoint
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| targetstring · required | string | required | Domain, subdomain, or absolute page URL to analyze. |
| limitnumber · optional | number | optional | Maximum records to return (1-1000). Defaults to 100. Default: |
| groupingstring · optional | string | optional | Return one representative link per referring domain (default) or all links. One of: |
| dofollow_onlyboolean · optional | boolean | optional | Only return dofollow links. Defaults to false. Default: |
| include_subdomainsboolean · optional | boolean | optional | Include links to subdomains. Defaults to true. Default: |
Response schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"required": [
"elements"
],
"properties": {
"elements": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"anchor": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"is_new": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"is_lost": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"dofollow": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"last_seen": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "ISO-8601 timestamp of when the crawler last saw this backlink."
},
"link_type": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"page_rank": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"first_seen": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "ISO-8601 timestamp of when the crawler first saw this backlink."
},
"source_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"spam_score": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"target_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"domain_rank": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"source_domain": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}
},
"returned": {
"type": "number",
"description": "How many rows this run returned, after any Limit was applied."
},
"truncated": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"suggestion": {
"type": "string"
},
"totalCount": {
"type": "number",
"description": "How many records the provider says MATCH in total, independent of Limit — routinely in the millions (spotify.com has 2,583,327 ranking pages). It is a match count, NOT how many this endpoint will serve: Limit caps what one call returns, so do not compare it against the row count to judge completeness and do not paginate towards it. Absent when the provider sent no count."
},
"totalElements": {
"type": "number",
"description": "DEPRECATED — despite the name this is the count RETURNED by this run, not a grand total, so it equals your Limit on a limited run. Kept at that value deliberately: ENG-17058 asked for depth 5 to report 5, and it is a live number in existing flows. Use `returned` for this number or `totalCount` for how many records match."
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}
