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Backlinks

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‌ This endpoint will provide you with the number of backlinks pointing to domains, subdomains, and pages specified in the targets array. The returned numbers correspond to all live backlinks, that is, total number of referring links with all attributes (e.g., nofollow, noreferrer, ugc, sponsored etc) that were found during the latest check.

post/v3/backlinks/bulk_backlinks/live

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dataforseo.com
  • URL: https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/bulk_backlinks/live
  • Auth: HTTP basic

Request body

targetsstring[]

<em>domains, subdomains or webpages to get the number of backlinks for</em><br><strong>required field</strong><br>you can set up to 1000 domains, subdomains or webpages<br>the domain or subdomain should be specified without <code>https://</code> and <code>www.</code><br>the page should be specified with absolute URL (including <code>http://</code> or <code>https://</code>)<br>example:<br>"targets": [<br> "forbes.com",<br> "cnn.com",<br> "bbc.com",<br> "yelp.com",<br> "https://www.apple.com/iphone/",<br> "https://ahrefs.com/blog/",<br> "ibm.com",<br> "https://variety.com/",<br> "https://stackoverflow.com/",<br> "www.trustpilot.com"<br>]

tagstring nullable

<em>user-defined task identifier</em><br>optional field<br><em>the character limit is 255</em><br>you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result<br>you will find the specified <code>tag</code> value in the <code>data</code> object of the response

Example request

[
  {
    "targets": [
      "forbes.com",
      "cnn.com",
      "bbc.com",
      "yelp.com",
      "https://www.apple.com/iphone/",
      "https://ahrefs.com/blog/",
      "ibm.com",
      "https://variety.com/",
      "https://stackoverflow.com/",
      "www.trustpilot.com"
    ]
  }
]

Response

Successful operation

versionstring nullable

the current version of the API

status_codeinteger nullable

general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here

status_messagestring nullable

general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here

timestring nullable

total execution time, seconds

costnumber double nullable

total tasks cost, USD

tasks_countinteger nullable

the number of tasks in the tasks array

tasks_errorinteger nullable

the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error

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