Data API / DataForSEO / Backlinks

Bulk Backlinks

Backlink counts for many targets at once - one row of target and backlinks. Use it to rank a list before spending a per-target call on any of them; post_dataforseo_backlinks_summary_live gives the full profile of one. This one takes no limit parameter, so the only lever is calling it less often.

Parameters

No path, query, or header parameters.

Request body

targetsstring[]Required
domains, subdomains or webpages to get the number of backlinks for required field you can set up to 1000 domains, subdomains or webpages the domain or subdomain should be specified without https:// and www. the page should be specified with absolute URL (including http:// or https://) example: "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" ]
tagstringOptional
user-defined task identifier optional field the character limit is 255 you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response

Example request

curl -X POST "https://openapi.felo.ai/v1/beta/dataforseo/backlinks/bulk_backlinks/live" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FELO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "targets": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "tag": "<string>"
}'

Response

Response fields

versionstringOptional
the current version of the API
status_codeintegerOptional
general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_messagestringOptional
general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here
timestringOptional
execution time, seconds
costnumberOptional
total tasks cost, USD
tasks_countintegerOptional
the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_errorintegerOptional
the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasksstring[]Optional
array of tasks
idstringOptional
task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
status_codeintegerOptional
status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of the response codes here
status_messagestringOptional
informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here
timestringOptional
execution time, seconds
costnumberOptional
cost of the task, USD
result_countintegerOptional
number of elements in the result array
pathstring[]Optional
URL path
dataobjectOptional
contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
resultstring[]Optional
array of results
items_countintegerOptional
the number of results returned in the items array
itemsstring[]Optional
contains relevant backlink data
targetstringOptional
domain, subdomain or webpage from a POST array
backlinksintegerOptional
number of backlinks pointing to the target