Get Anchors - Markifact

List the anchor texts used in backlinks to a target from Ahrefs Site Explorer, with referring domains and pages, link counts, dofollow links, new and lost links and the top Domain Rating per anchor.


App	Ahrefs
Operation ID	`ahrefs_get_anchors`
Type	Action
Connection	`ahrefs` (required)
Credits per run	Free
Agent / MCP tool	Yes

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`target`	string	Yes	-	The domain, subdomain, subfolder or URL to list backlink anchor texts for (e.g. example.com).
`mode`	string or SelectableOption	No	`subdomains`	How to interpret the target: ‘subdomains’ (domain and all subdomains, default), ‘domain’ (the exact host only), ‘prefix’ (every URL starting with the target), or ‘exact’ (the exact URL only).
`history`	string or SelectableOption	No	`all_time`	’live’ counts only currently live backlinks; ‘all_time’ also includes lost ones. Ignored when since_date is set.
`since_date`	string	No	-	Include backlinks lost since this date (YYYY-MM-DD) in addition to live ones. Overrides history.
`metrics`	array of string or SelectableOption	No	-	Columns to return (anchor is always included). Available: refdomains, refpages, links_to_target, dofollow_links, new_links, lost_links, top_domain_rating, first_seen, last_seen, is_spam. Ahrefs API unit cost per row: refdomains costs 5 units, the rest 1. Defaults to refdomains, refpages, links_to_target, dofollow_links, top_domain_rating.
`filters`	array of FilterItem	No	-	Filters on the available columns, e.g. refdomains GREATER_THAN 5 or anchor CONTAINS ‘brand’. Filter fields count towards the unit cost per row.
`orders`	array of OrderItem	No	-	Sort by one or more columns.
`limit`	integer	No	`100`	Maximum number of rows to return. Defaults to 100. Your Ahrefs plan caps rows per request (Lite 100, Standard 250, Advanced 500).

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`field`	string or SelectableOption	Yes	-	The field to filter on, must be one of the current selected metrics or dimensions.
`operator`	string	Yes	-	The operator to use for filtering. Must be one of the supported values. Use REGEXP_MATCH to search/filter by multiple OR values like ’.(summer\|holiday).’
`value`	string	Yes	-	The value to filter by, always as a string: text, a number, or a regex. For IN_LIST and NOT_IN_LIST, pass the values as one comma-separated string such as ‘a,b,c’, not as an array.

OrderItem

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`field`	string or SelectableOption	Yes	-	The field to sort by. must be one of the current selected metrics or dimensions.
`direction`	string	Yes	-	The order to sort by, must be one of ‘ASC’, ‘DESC’

SelectableOption

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`value`	string	Yes	-
`label`	string	Yes	-

Output

Type: List[Dict] Returns one row per anchor text with the selected Ahrefs fields: anchor, refdomains, refpages, links_to_target, dofollow_links, new_links, lost_links, top_domain_rating, first_seen, last_seen, is_spam. Fields: anchor, refdomains, refpages, links_to_target, dofollow_links, top_domain_rating Example:

[
  {
    "anchor": "ahrefs",
    "refdomains": 18234,
    "refpages": 91022,
    "links_to_target": 120453,
    "dofollow_links": 88210,
    "top_domain_rating": 99.0
  }
]