Data API / DataForSEO / Backlinks

Backlinks History

One target's backlink profile as it stood on each date in a range, with date_from, date_to and one item per point. For the current profile only use post_dataforseo_backlinks_summary_live. For a lighter time series, post_dataforseo_backlinks_timeseries_summary_live reports fewer metrics per point. This one takes no limit parameter, so the only lever is calling it less often.

Parameters

No path, query, or header parameters.

Request body

targetstringRequired
domain required field a domain should be specified without https:// and www.
date_fromstringOptional
starting date of the time range optional field minimum value 2019-01-01 if you don’t specify this field, the minimum value will be used by default date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2019-01-15"
date_tostringOptional
ending date of the time range optional field if you don’t specify this field, the today’s date will be used by default date format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2019-01-15"
rank_scalestringOptional
defines the scale used for calculating and displaying the rank, domain_from_rank, and page_from_rank values optional field you can use this parameter to choose whether rank values are presented on a 0–100 or 0–1000 scale possible values: one_hundred — rank values are displayed on a 0–100 scale one_thousand — rank values are displayed on a 0–1000 scale default value: one_thousand learn more about how this parameter works and how ranking metrics are calculated in this Help Center article
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/history/live" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FELO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "target": "<string>",
  "date_from": "<string>",
  "date_to": "<string>",
  "rank_scale": "<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
targetstringOptional
target from the POST array
date_fromstringOptional
starting date of the time range in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd” example: 2019-01-01
date_tostringOptional
ending date of the time range in the UTC format: "yyyy-mm-dd" example: "2019-01-15"
items_countintegerOptional
the number of results returned in the items array
itemsstring[]Optional
contains historical backlink data for the specified domain the data is provided month-by-month; the metrics are aggregated according to the backlinks the specified domain had on the first day of each given month
typestringOptional
type of element = ‘backlinks_history’
datestringOptional
date and time when the data for the target was stored in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
rankintegerOptional
domain rank on the given date learn more about the metric and how it is calculated in this help center article
backlinksintegerOptional
number of backlinks
new_backlinksintegerOptional
number of new backlinks for the target data is provided based in a comparison with the previous period Note: this data is available from May 2021; if the date range specified in the POST request precedes May 2021, the field will equal 0
lost_backlinksintegerOptional
number of lost backlinks for the target data is provided based in a comparison with the previous period Note: this data is available from May 2021; if the date range specified in the POST request precedes May 2021, the field will equal 0
new_referring_domainsintegerOptional
number of new referring domains for the target data is provided based in a comparison with the previous period Note: this data is available from May 2021; if the date range specified in the POST request precedes May 2021, the field will equal 0
lost_referring_domainsintegerOptional
number of lost referring domains for the target data is provided based in a comparison with the previous period Note: this data is available from May 2021; if the date range specified in the POST request precedes May 2021, the field will equal 0
crawled_pagesintegerOptional
number of crawled pages for the target
infoobjectOptional
information about the target
serverstringOptional
server
cmsstringOptional
content management system
platform_typestring[]Optional
platform type
ip_addressstringOptional
IP address of the target
countrystringOptional
country code that the target domain is determined to belong to
is_ipbooleanOptional
indicates if the target is IP if true, the domain, subdomain or webpage functions as an IP address and does not have a domain name
target_spam_scoreintegerOptional
spam score of the target if the target is a domain/subdomain, this fields indicates the average spam score of all pages of that domain/subdomain; learn more about how the metric is calculated on this help center page
internal_links_countintegerOptional
number of internal links calculated as the sum of internal links on the pages of the specified target
external_links_countintegerOptional
number of external links on the page calculated as the sum of external links on the pages of the specified target
broken_backlinksintegerOptional
number of broken backlinks number of broken backlinks pointing to the target
broken_pagesintegerOptional
number of broken pages number of pages that receive backlinks but respond with 4xx or 5xx status codes
referring_domainsintegerOptional
number of referring domains referring domains include subdomains that are counted as separate domains for this metric
referring_domains_nofollowintegerOptional
number of domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target
referring_main_domainsintegerOptional
number of referring main domains
referring_main_domains_nofollowintegerOptional
number of main domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target
referring_ipsintegerOptional
number of referring IP addresses number of IP addresses pointing to this page
referring_subnetsintegerOptional
number of referring subnetworks
referring_pagesintegerOptional
number of pages pointing to the target
referring_links_tldobjectOptional
top-level domains of the referring links contains top-level domains and referring link count per each
referring_links_typesobjectOptional
types of referring links indicates the types of the referring links and link count per each type possible values: anchor, image, link, meta, canonical, alternate, redirect
referring_links_attributesobjectOptional
link attributes of the referring links indicates link attributes of the referring links and link count per each attribute
referring_links_platform_typesobjectOptional
types of referring platforms indicates referring platform types and and link count per each platform possible values: cms, blogs, ecommerce, message-boards, wikis, news, organization
referring_links_semantic_locationsobjectOptional
semantic locations of the referring links indicates semantic elements in HTML where the referring links are located and link count per each semantic location you can get the full list of semantic elements here examples: article, section, summary
referring_links_countriesobjectOptional
ISO country codes of the referring links indicates ISO country codes of the domains where the referring links are located and the link count per each country
referring_pages_nofollowintegerOptional
number of referring pages pointing at least one nofollow link to the target