Documentation - backlinks
Contains the backlinks and details of the referring pages, such as anchor and page title.
Each request to backlinks costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 0.2 rows.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.
• refpages
Column | Type | Where | Having | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
url_from | string | + | + | URL of the page where the backlink is found. |
url_to | string | + | + | URL of the page the backlink is pointing to. |
ahrefs_rank | int | + | + | URL Rating of the referring page. |
domain_rating | int | − | + | Domain Rating of the referring domain. |
ahrefs_top | int | − | + | Ahrefs Rank of the target domain. |
ip_from | string | + | + | IP address of the referring page. |
links_internal | int | + | + | Number of internal links found in the referring page. |
links_external | int | + | + | Number of external links found in the referring page. |
page_size | int | + | + | Size of the referring page, in bytes. |
encoding | string | + | + | Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1). |
language | string | + | + | Language of the referring page (ISO 639-1). |
title | string | + | + | Title of the referring page. |
first_seen | date | + | + | Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
last_visited | date | + | + | Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
prev_visited | date | + | + | Second to the most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
original | boolean | + | + | Indicates whether the backlink was present on the referring page when the Ahrefs crawler first visited it. |
link_type | string | + | + | Either "href", "redirect", "frame", "form", "canonical", "rss", or "alternate". |
redirect | int | + | + | For redirected links, the Redirect Code (3XX), zero otherwise. |
nofollow | boolean | + | + | Indicates whether the backlink is NoFollow. |
alt | string | + | + | Alternative text of the image backlink, if exists. |
anchor | string | + | + | Anchor text of the backlink. |
text_pre | string | + | + | Snippet before the anchor text. |
text_post | string | + | + | Snippet after the anchor text. |
http_code | int | + | + | The HTTP code for the Link URL. |
url_from_first_seen | date | + | + | Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the referring page with backlink. |
Examples
Request
Response
{ "refpages": [ { "url_to": "http://ahrefs.com/serp-checker", "url_from": "http://www.aletenky.cz/", "ahrefs_rank": 21, "domain_rating": 48, "ahrefs_top": 2348, "ip_from": "46.51.179.2", "links_internal": 0, "links_external": 1, "page_size": 199, "encoding": "raw", "language": "", "title": "301 Moved Permanently", "first_seen": "2013-10-26T20:19:04Z", "last_visited": "2013-11-08T19:25:22Z", "prev_visited": "2013-11-07T06:58:50Z", "original": true, "link_type": "redirect", "redirect": 301, "nofollow": false, "alt": "", "anchor": "", "text_pre": "", "text_post": "", "http_code": 200, "url_from_first_seen": "2013-11-07T06:58:50Z" }, { "url_to": "http://ahrefs.com/", "url_from": "http://oni.toypark.in/", "ahrefs_rank": 16, "domain_rating": 62, "ahrefs_top": 456783, "ip_from": "183.177.133.249", "links_internal": 84, "links_external": 18, "page_size": 9529, "encoding": "utf8", "language": "ja", "title": "SEOの鬼サーチ ブログ版 | ディレクトリに登録されているサイトギャラリー", "first_seen": "2013-10-27T20:42:14Z", "last_visited": "2013-11-05T21:55:32Z", "prev_visited": "2013-11-01T17:09:20Z", "original": true, "link_type": "href", "redirect": 0, "nofollow": false, "alt": "", "anchor": "ahrefs", "text_pre": "", "text_post": "", "http_code": 200, "url_from_first_seen": "2013-11-07T06:58:50Z" } ] }