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Competitors

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This endpoint will provide you with a list of competitors that share some part of the backlink profile with a target website, along with a number of backlink intersections and the rank of every competing website.

Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access

<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
$post_array = array();
// simple way to get a result
$post_array[] = array(
   "target" => "dataforseo.com",
   "filters" => ["rank", ">", 100],
   "order_by" => ["rank,desc"],
   "limit" => 5
);
try {
   // POST /v3/backlinks/competitors/live
   // the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
   $result = $client->post('/v3/backlinks/competitors/live', $post_array);
   print_r($result);
   // do something with post result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
   echo "n";
   print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
   print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
   print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
   print  $e->getTraceAsString();
   echo "n";
}
$client = null;
?>

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
  "version": "0.1.20220720",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "status_message": "Ok.",
  "time": "4.9002 sec.",
  "cost": 0.0203,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "07211149-1535-0461-0000-583da4215b2d",
      "status_code": 20000,
      "status_message": "Ok.",
      "time": "4.1549 sec.",
      "cost": 0.0203,
      "result_count": 1,
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "backlinks",
        "competitors",
        "live"
      ],
      "data": {
        "api": "backlinks",
        "function": "competitors",
        "target": "dataforseo.com",
        "main_domain": true,
        "exclude_large_domains": true,
        "order_by": [
          "rank,desc"
        ],
        "filters": [
          [
            "rank",
            ">",
            100
          ]
        ],
        "limit": 10
      },
      "result": [
        {
          "total_count": 390,
          "items_count": 10,
          "items": [
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "muskatli.hu",
              "rank": 368,
              "intersections": 4
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "kani.hu",
              "rank": 333,
              "intersections": 2
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "dnsstuff.com",
              "rank": 333,
              "intersections": 2
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "keyboost.co.uk",
              "rank": 310,
              "intersections": 83
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "mapmyuser.com",
              "rank": 302,
              "intersections": 71
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "ahrefs.com",
              "rank": 288,
              "intersections": 257
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "seopageoptimizer.co.uk",
              "rank": 286,
              "intersections": 61
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "linkremoval.net",
              "rank": 285,
              "intersections": 59
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "saijogeorge.com",
              "rank": 282,
              "intersections": 32
            },
            {
              "type": "backlinks_competitors",
              "target": "ipower.eu",
              "rank": 280,
              "intersections": 58
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). The task setting is done using the POST method. When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array.

Description of the fields for setting a task:

Field name Type Description
target string domain, subdomain or webpage to get competitor domains for
required field
a domain or a subdomain should be specified without https:// and www.
a page should be specified with absolute URL (including http:// or https://)
limit integer the maximum number of returned domains
optional field
default value: 100
maximum value: 1000
offset integer offset in the results array of returned domains
optional field
default value: 0
if you specify the 10 value, the first ten domains in the results array will be omitted and the data will be provided for the successive pages
filters array array of results filtering parameters
optional field
you can add several filters at once (8 filters maximum)
you should set a logical operator and, or between the conditions
the following operators are supported:
regex, not_regex, =, <>, in, not_in, like, not_like, ilike, not_ilike
you can use the % operator with like and not_like to match any string of zero or more characters
example:
["rank",">","100"]

[["target","like","%forbes%"],
"and",
[["rank",">","100"],"or",["intersections",">","5"]]]

The full list of possible filters is available here.

order_by array results sorting rules
optional field
you can use the same values as in the filters array to sort the results
possible sorting types:
asc – results will be sorted in the ascending order
desc – results will be sorted in the descending order
you should use a comma to set up a sorting type
example:
["rank,desc"]
note that you can set no more than three sorting rules in a single request
you should use a comma to separate several sorting rules
example:
["intersections,desc","rank,asc"]
main_domain boolean indicates if only main domain of the target will be included in the search
optional field
if set to true, only the main domain will be included in search;
default value: true
exclude_large_domains boolean indicates whether large domain will appear in results
optional field
if set to true, the results from the large domain (google.com, amazon.com, etc.) will be omitted;
default value: true
exclude_internal_backlinks boolean indicates if internal backlinks from subdomains to the target will be excluded from the results
optional field
if set to true, the results will not include data on internal backlinks from subdomains of the same domain as target
if set to false, internal links will be included in the results
default value: true
tag string 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

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As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.

Description of the fields in the results array:

Field name Type Description
version string the current version of the API
status_code integer 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_message string general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time string execution time, seconds
cost float total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count integer the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string task identifier
unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
        status_code integer 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_message string informational message of the task
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
        time string execution time, seconds
        cost float cost of the task, USD
        result_count integer number of elements in the result array
        path array URL path
        data object contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
        result array array of results
            total_count integer total number of relevant items in the database
            items_count integer number of items in the items array
            items array items array
                type string type of element = ‘backlinks_competitors’
                target string competitor domain
                rank integer domain rank
domain rank across all domains in the database
rank is calculated based on the method for node ranking in a linked database – a principle used in the original Google PageRank algorithm
learn more about the metric and how it is calculated in this help center article
                intersections integer indicates the number of backlink intersections with the target specified in the POST array

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