Backlink API
API endpoint → https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlinks/
Example API call → https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlinks/?url=searchengineland.com&unique_domains=1&key=YOUR-API-KEY
Price: 6 credits per request
Description: Uncover all the backlinks pointing to a specific URL or a full domain.
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/ |
| Limit | &limit= |
Optional: Set a maximum for the number off backlinks you want to return. example: 10, default = 100 |
| Offset | &offset= |
Optional: Use the offset parameter to get the backlinks after the specified number. example: 10, default = 0 |
| Dofollow | &dofollow_only |
Optional: Use the dofollow_only paramter to only get the dofllow backlinks. example: 1, default = 0 |
| Unique domains | &unique_domains | Optional: Use the unique_domains parameter to only get one backlink per domain.
example: 1, default = 0 |
| Key | &key= | Your private API key |
Response elements
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Backlink | ↓ |
| URL | URL where the backlink is from |
| Domain | Domain where the backlink is from |
| Spam score | Spam score of the backlink on a 0 – 100 scale (a 100 being a very toxic backlink) |
| Page authority | The authority of the backlink page on a 0 – 100 scale |
| Domain authority | The authority of the backlink domain on a 0 – 100 scale |
| Link type | Link type (anchor, image, link, meta, canonical, alternate, redirect) |
| Anchor text | The text of the backlink |
| Alt | The ALT tag in the case of an image link |
| Dofollow | If the backlink is dofollow (true or false) |
| First seen | Date and time when the backlink was first discovered |
| Last seen | Date and time when the backlink was first discovered |
| Link is lost | True or False |
| Link is new | True or False |
| Broken status | If the backlink is broken (true or false) and responding with a error code |
| External links on page | Total number of external links on the page with backlink |
| Link attribute | Link atributes (nofollow, noopener, ugc, …. ) |
| IP | The IP address of the backlink |
| Landing page | ↓ |
| URL | The URL where the backlink is pointing to (the landing page) |
| Spam score | The Spam score on a 0 – 100 scale of the landing page |
| Status code | Status code of the landing page |
Backlink spam score explained
| Spam score | Explanation |
|---|---|
| 0 -30 | Low spam score |
| 30 – 60 | Medium spam score |
| 60 – 100 | High spam score |
Tool: Backlink Checker (API powered)
More information: discover more about this API
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
$apiRequestUrl = 'https://api.seoreviewtools.com/backlinks/?url='.$inputUrl.'&unique_domains=1&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/backlinks/?url='+inputUrl+'&unique_domains=1&key='+apiKey
r = requests.request("GET", toolRequestUrl,)
print(r.text)JSON response example
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