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‌ This endpoint will provide you with historical backlinks data back to the beginning of 2019. You can receive the number of backlinks a given domain had in a specific time period, the number of new & lost backlinks, referring domains, and more.

post/v3/backlinks/history/live

Request

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

Request body

targetstring

<em>domain</em><br><strong>required field</strong><br>a domain should be specified without <code>https://</code> and <code>www.</code>

date_fromstring nullable

<em>starting date of the time range</em><br>optional field<br>minimum value <code>2019-01-01</code><br>if you don't specify this field, the minimum value will be used by default<br>date format: <code>"yyyy-mm-dd"</code><br>example:<br><code>"2019-01-15"</code>

date_tostring nullable

<em>ending date of the time range</em><br>optional field<br>if you don't specify this field, the today's date will be used by default<br>date format: <code>"yyyy-mm-dd"</code><br>example:<br><code>"2019-01-15"</code>

rank_scalestring nullable

<em>defines the scale used for calculating and displaying the <code>rank</code>, <code>domain_from_rank</code>, and <code>page_from_rank</code> values</em><br>optional field<p>you can use this parameter to choose whether rank values are presented on a 0–100 or 0–1000 scale<p>possible values:<br><code>one_hundred</code> — rank values are displayed on a 0–100 scale<br><code>one_thousand</code> — rank values are displayed on a 0–1000 scale<p>default value: <code>one_thousand</code><p>learn more about how this parameter works and how ranking metrics are calculated in <a href="https://dataforseo.com/help-center/what_is_rank_in_backlinks_api#rank_scale">this Help Center article</a>

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

[
  {
    "target": "cnn.com",
    "date_from": "2020-01-01",
    "date_to": "2021-01-01"
  }
]

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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