Backlink overview / summary API

API endpoint → https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlink-overview/

Example API call → https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlink-overview/?url=searchengineland.com&key=YOUR-API-KEY

Price: 6 credits per request

Description: Generate an overview of the backlink statistics pointing to a specific URL or a full domain (the target).

Query string parameters

Name	Parameter	Description
URL	&url=	The URL you want to analyse – Backlinks pointing to a specific PAGE, example: https://example.com/url/ – Backlinks pointing to the full DOMAIN, example: example.com (without “www” and “https”)
Dofollow	&dofollow_only	Optional: Use the dofollow_only paramter to only get the dofllow backlinks. example: 1, default = 0
Key	&key=	Your private API key

Name

Parameter

Description

URL

&url=

The URL you want to analyse

– Backlinks pointing to a specific PAGE, example: https://example.com/url/
– Backlinks pointing to the full DOMAIN, example: example.com (without “www” and “https”)

Dofollow

&dofollow_only

Optional: Use the dofollow_only paramter to only get the dofllow backlinks.

example: 1, default = 0

Key

&key=

Your private API key

Response elements

Name	Description
Backlinks total	Total number of backlinks linking to the target (URL or Domain)
Spam score	Spam score of the backlink on a 0 – 100 scale (a 100 being a very toxic backlink)
Domain authority	The authority of the backlink page on a 0 – 100 scale
Broken backlinks	Total number of broken backlinks linking to the target
Domains	Total number of backlinks coming from seperate domains (subdomains are counted as seperate domains)
Unique domains	Total number of backlinks coming from unique domains (subdomains and main domains are counted as one)
Referring pages	Total number of pages linking to to the target
Referring IPs	Total number of IP addresses linking to to the target
TLD distribution	Top Level Domain distribution (examples: .com, .org, .net, …)
Link attributes	Link attributes (nofollow, noopener, ugc, …. )

Tool: Backlink Checker (API powered)

More information: discover more about this API

PHP
Python

PHP code example


<?php



/*

    API documentation for SEO Review Tools.

    API info: https://www.seoreviewtools.com/seo-api/

    API documentation: https://api.seoreviewtools.com/documentation/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seo-review-tools

*/



// input URL or domain

$inputUrl = 'searchengineland.com';



// API key 

$apiKey = 'YOUR-API-KEY';



// specific API url 

$apiRequestUrl = 'https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlink-overview/?url='.$inputUrl.'&key='.$apiKey;



// get data from API

$jsonReposnse = file_get_contents($apiRequestUrl);



// convert JSON to PHP array

$dataArray = json_decode($jsonReposnse, true);



// check if API call is success or failed

// (just some basic validation)



// API call fail

if ($dataArray['status'] !== 'ok'){



    // return error message

    echo 'Error message: '.$dataArray['error message'];



// API call success    

} else {



    // print data

    print_r($dataArray); 

}



?>

Python code example

# API documentation for SEO Review Tools.
# API info: https://www.seoreviewtools.com/seo-api/
# API documentation: https://api.seoreviewtools.com/documentation/
# LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seo-review-tools

import requests

# API key
apiKey = 'YOUR-API-KEY'

# input URL or domain
inputUrl = 'searchengineland.com'

# API URL
toolRequestUrl = 'https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlink-overview/?url='+inputUrl+'&key='+apiKey

r = requests.request("GET", toolRequestUrl,)
print(r.text)

JSON response example

{
    "status": "ok",
    "result": 1,
    "data": {
        "tool name": "Backlink overview",
        "input URL": "searchengineland.com",
        "data": [
            {
                "Backlinks total": 7067355,
                "Domain Authority": 89,
                "Indexed pages": 167879,
                "Spam Score": 0,
                "Broken backlinks": 2925292,
                "Domains": 127072,
                "Unique domains": 105086,
                "Referring pages": 6258166,
                "Referring IPs": 86734,
                "TLD distribution": {
                    "com": 4014679,
                    "org": 581176,
                    "net": 275031,
                    "co.kr": 214630,
                    "biz": 191119,
                    "uk": 183203,
                    "co.uk": 128133,
                    "jp": 105834,
                    "info": 31708,
                    "com.au": 27727
                },
                "Link attributes": {
                    "nofollow": 677691,
                    "noopener": 529786,
                    "noreferrer": 185506,
                    "ugc": 23718,
                    "external": 15879,
                    "sponsored": 12930,
                    "author": 7189,
                    "bookmark": 3837,
                    "tag": 308,
                    "via": 179
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

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