---
title: "preview_competitor_exclusions"
method: POST
path: "/v1/competitor-sets/{setId}/exclusions/preview"
---

# preview_competitor_exclusions

`POST /v1/competitor-sets/{setId}/exclusions/preview`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.agentlinkops.com`
- URL: `https://app.agentlinkops.com/v1/competitor-sets/{setId}/exclusions/preview`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer

Remaining arguments go in a JSON object body.

## Path parameters

- `setId` string, required: set ID from create/list.

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-ID` string

## Request body

- object
  - `revision` integer, required: Immutable set revision to read/compare.
  - `inventoryIds` string[], required: Frozen inventory IDs to compare within the approved set.
  - `grouping` 'page' | 'source_host', required: Aggregate selected inventories by this dimension.
  - `exclusions` object[]: Customer-approved exclusions to apply to this report.
    - `grouping` 'page' | 'source_host', required
    - `value` string, required
  - `maxRetrievalSkewMs` integer: Maximum inventory retrieval-time skew in milliseconds.
  - `exclusionRevision` integer: Saved exclusion revision; historical revisions stay immutable.

## Response `200`

Remaining arguments go in a JSON object body.

- object
  - `v` number, required
  - `set_id` string, required
  - `set_revision` number, required
  - `grouping` string, required
  - `comparison` object, required
    - `mode` string, required
    - `reasons` string[], required
    - `absence_claim` 'not_supported', required: not_supported: missing dataset rows cannot prove link absence.
  - `absence_claim` 'not_supported', required: not_supported: missing dataset rows cannot prove link absence.
  - `whole_web_coverage` false, required: False: these results do not measure the whole web.
  - `coverage_scope` string, required
  - `verification_view` string, required
  - `max_retrieval_skew_ms` number, required
  - `selected_inventory_ids` string[], required
  - `unselected_member_ids` string[], required
  - `exclusions` object, required
    - `scope` string, required
    - `policy` string, required
    - `rules` object[], required
      - `grouping` 'page' | 'source_host', required
      - `value` string, required
    - `saved_revision` number
    - `set_revision_at_save` number
  - `inventories` object[], required
    - `v` number, required
    - `id` string, required: Resource identifier returned by the operation.
    - `workspace_id` string, required: Workspace that owns this record.
    - `project_id` string, required: Project that owns this record.
    - `set_id` string, required
    - `set_revision` number, required
    - `set_hash` string, required
    - `member_id` string, required
    - `member_role` string, required
    - `target_scope_id` string, required
    - `captured_at` string, required
    - `provider_retrieved_from` string, nullable, required
    - `provider_retrieved_to` string, nullable, required
    - `run` object, required
      - `v` 1, required
      - `id` string, required: Resource identifier returned by the operation.
      - `workspace_id` string, required: Workspace that owns this record.
      - `project_id` string, required: Project that owns this record.
      - `provider` 'linktrail_corpus' | 'dataforseo' | 'imported', required
      - `data_mode` 'synthetic' | 'owned_corpus' | 'provider_index' | 'imported', required
      - `query` object, required
        - `target_kind` 'domain' | 'exact_url', required
        - `target` string, required
        - `include_subdomains` boolean, required
        - `backlinks_status_type` 'live' | 'lost' | 'all', required
        - `exclude_internal_backlinks` boolean, required
        - `mode` 'as_is', required
        - `filters` unknown, required
        - `rank_scale` 'one_thousand', nullable, required
        - `page_limit` integer, required
        - `row_limit` integer, required
      - `status` 'queued' | 'running' | 'succeeded' | 'partial' | 'failed' | 'reconciliation_required', required: Resource lifecycle status.
      - `created_at` string, date-time, required: UTC timestamp when the record was created.
      - `started_at` string, date-time, nullable, required
      - `finished_at` string, date-time, nullable, required
      - `coverage` 'pending' | 'complete_for_query' | 'capped' | 'partial' | 'unknown', required: Dataset scope and completeness, including limits on what these results establish.
      - `coverage_reason` string, nullable, required
      - `provider_total_count` integer, nullable, required
      - `usage` object, required
        - `unit` 'discovery', required
        - `currency` 'USD', required
        - `quote_id` string, required
        - `max_cost_microusd` integer, required
        - `reserved_cost_microusd` integer, required
        - `provider_reported_cost_microusd` integer, nullable, required
        - `request_count` integer, required
        - `returned_rows` integer, required
        - `accepted_candidates` integer, required
        - `rejected_rows` integer, required
        - `duplicate_rows` integer, required
      - `operation` 'backlinks', required
      - `coverage_scope` 'customer_import' | 'corpus_subset' | 'provider_query', required
      - `whole_web_coverage` false, required: False: these results do not measure the whole web.
      - `replayed` boolean: True when the response reuses an earlier request with the same idempotency value.
    - `content_hash` string, required
    - `absence_claim` 'not_supported', required: not_supported: missing dataset rows cannot prove link absence.
    - `verification_view` 'captured_at_snapshot', required
    - `replayed` boolean: True when the response reuses an earlier request with the same idempotency value.
  - `baseline_report_hash` string, required
  - `preview_hash` string, required
  - `dry_run` true, required
  - `before_counts` object, nullable, required
    - `groups` number, required
    - `rows` number, required
    - `observed_overlap_groups` number, required
    - `dataset_gap_groups` number, nullable, required
    - `comparison_unknown_groups` number, required
    - `excluded_groups` number, required
    - `excluded_rows` number, required
  - `after_counts` object, nullable, required
    - `groups` number, required
    - `rows` number, required
    - `observed_overlap_groups` number, required
    - `dataset_gap_groups` number, nullable, required
    - `comparison_unknown_groups` number, required
    - `excluded_groups` number, required
    - `excluded_rows` number, required
  - `per_rule` object[], required
    - `rule` object, required
      - `grouping` 'page' | 'source_host', required
      - `value` string, required
    - `matched_rows` number, nullable, required
    - `hidden_groups` number, nullable, required
    - `hidden_rows` number, nullable, required
  - `per_rule_counts_overlap` boolean, required
  - `examples` object[], required
    - `group_key` string, required: Exact group identifier used to retrieve contributor rows.
    - `relation` string, required
    - `hidden_rows` number, required
    - `matched_rows` number, required
    - `collateral_rows` number, required
    - `matches` object[], required
      - `candidate_id` string, required
      - `source_url` string, required: Publisher page URL recorded in this evidence.
      - `target_url` string, required: Destination URL recorded in this evidence.
      - `inventory_id` string, required
      - `member_id` string, required
      - `member_role` string, required
      - `rule_indexes` number[], required
    - `matches_truncated` boolean, required
  - `examples_truncated` boolean, required
  - `example_limits` object, required
    - `groups` number, required
    - `matches_per_group` number, required

## Other responses

- `429`: Request-rate or usage refusal. Inspect error.code and recovery details before retrying.
- `default`: Error envelope. Non-configuration 5xx messages are masked and details omitted; allowlisted configuration errors retain static operator recovery.

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