Pricing
Your account will not be charged for using this API
This endpoint will provide you with the total number of backlinks, domains, and pages our database contains for the moment when you make a request. You will also get stats for the last 12 months.
Note that monthly index data is available starting from 2021-10-01; subsequent months will be added over time.
Your account will not be charged for using this API
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 parameters passed in the URL of the GET request |
result |
array | array of results |
total_backlinks |
integer | total number of backlinks our database contains for the moment of checking |
total_pages |
integer | total number of pages our database contains for the moment of checking |
total_domains |
integer | total number of domains our database contains for the moment of checking |
index_history |
array | index volume data for the past 12 months |
date |
string | date for which index volume data is provided in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd” example: 2021-10-01 |
total_backlinks |
integer | total number of backlinks our database contained on the given date |
total_pages |
integer | total number of pages our database contained on the given date |
total_domains |
integer | total number of domains our database contained on the given date |
Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
login="login"
password="password"
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)"
curl --location --request GET "https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/index"
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"
--header "Content-Type: application/json" <?php
// You can download this file from here https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/_examples/php/_php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
try {
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
} 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";
exit();
}
try {
// using this method you can get information about current user
// GET /v3/backlinks/index
$result = $client->get('/v3/backlinks/index');
print_r($result);
// do something with 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;
?>const axios = require('axios');
axios({
method: 'get',
url: 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/backlinks/index',
auth: {
username: 'login',
password: 'password'
},
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/json'
}
}).then(function (response) {
var result = response['data']['tasks'][0]['result'];
// Result data
console.log(result);
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});from random import Random
from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/_examples/python/_python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
# using this method you can get information about current user
# GET /v3/backlinks/index
response = client.get("/v3/backlinks/index")
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
print(response)
# do something with result
else:
print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DataForSeoDemos
{
public static partial class Demos
{
public static async Task backlinks_index()
{
var httpClient = new HttpClient
{
BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
};
// using this method you can get information about current user
// GET /v3/backlinks/index
var response = await httpClient.GetAsync("/v3/backlinks/index");
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if (result.status_code == 20000)
{
// do something with result
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
else
Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
}
}
}The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{
"version": "0.1.20210917",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "25.1309 sec.",
"cost": 0,
"tasks_count": 1,
"tasks_error": 0,
"tasks": [
{
"id": "10251319-1535-0352-0000-108d48e8f381",
"status_code": 20000,
"status_message": "Ok.",
"time": "10.0698 sec.",
"cost": 0,
"result_count": 1,
"path": [
"v3",
"backlinks",
"index"
],
"data": {
"api": "backlinks",
"function": "index"
},
"result": [
{
"total_backlinks": 800620797193,
"total_pages": 80847129445,
"total_domains": 770682956,
"index_history": [
{
"date": "2021-10-01",
"total_backlinks": 565930450176,
"total_pages": 58044753857,
"total_domains": 612456690
}
]
}
]
}
]
}