Built-in tool
Track Backlink History
Track changes in a website’s backlinks, referring domains, and rank.
Endpoint
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| targetstring · required | string | required | Domain, subdomain, or absolute page URL to analyze. |
| date_tostring · optional | string | optional | Optional end date in YYYY-MM-DD format. |
| date_fromstring · optional | string | optional | Optional start date in YYYY-MM-DD format. |
| 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": {
"date": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Snapshot date. The provider labels each point with its month-end, so the month still in progress is reported as of Date To (or today) instead — never a future date, and never past the requested range."
},
"rank": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"backlinks": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"referring_pages": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"is_partial_month": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
],
"description": "True when this point covers a month that had not finished at the snapshot date, so its metrics are mid-month and not comparable with the complete months around it."
},
"referring_domains": {
"type": [
"number",
"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
}