Get Backlinks Summary

Get the backlink profile of a domain, subdomain or page from DataForSEO: backlinks, referring domains, IPs and subnets, rank, spam score, broken links, and the TLD, country, link type and platform distributions. The competitors report instead lists the domains sharing the most referring domains with the target. Needs the DataForSEO Backlinks subscription.


App	DataForSEO
Operation ID	`dataforseo_get_backlinks_summary`
Type	Action
Connection	`dataforseo` (required)
Credits per run	Free
Agent / MCP tool	Yes

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`target`	string	Yes	-	Domain, subdomain or page to analyse. Domains go in bare (example.com, blog.example.com); a single page needs its full URL (`https://example.com/pricing`).
`include_subdomains`	boolean	No	`True`	Count links to subdomains of the target as well. Defaults to true.
`exclude_internal_backlinks`	boolean	No	`True`	Leave out links coming from the target’s own subdomains. Defaults to true.
`backlinks_status_type`	string or SelectableOption	No	`live`	Which backlinks to count: ‘live’ (default, found on the last crawl), ‘all’ (live and lost together) or ‘lost’ (only links that disappeared).
`rank_scale`	string or SelectableOption	No	`one_thousand`	Scale for the rank, domain_from_rank and page_from_rank values: ‘one_thousand’ (DataForSEO’s default, 0 to 1000) or ‘one_hundred’ (0 to 100, comparable to the domain ratings other SEO tools show).
`report`	string or SelectableOption	No	`profile`	’profile’ (default): one row of backlink profile metrics for the target. ‘competitors’: the domains that share part of the target’s backlink profile, ranked by how many referring domains they have in common with it.
`include_indirect_links`	boolean	No	`True`	profile only: count links that reach the target through a redirect or a canonical. Defaults to true.
`backlinks_filters`	array of FilterItem	No	-	profile only: up to 8 filters applied to the backlinks before they are counted, on backlink fields such as dofollow, backlink_spam_score, domain_from_rank or tld_from, e.g. dofollow EQUALS true.
`top_n`	integer	No	`5`	profile only: how many entries to keep in each distribution (top TLDs, countries, link types), 1 to 10. Defaults to 5.
`main_domain_only`	boolean	No	`True`	competitors only: compare main domains only, ignoring subdomains. Defaults to true, matching DataForSEO; turn it off to let subdomains count as separate competitors.
`exclude_large_domains`	boolean	No	`True`	competitors only: leave out very large sites such as google.com and amazon.com. Defaults to true.
`filters`	array of FilterItem	No	-	competitors only: up to 8 filters on target, rank or intersections, e.g. intersections GREATER_THAN 50.
`orders`	array of OrderItem	No	-	competitors only: sort by up to 3 of target, rank or intersections. Defaults to intersections descending.
`limit`	integer	No	`100`	competitors only: maximum number of competitor domains to return (1 to 1000). Defaults to 100.
`offset`	integer	No	-	competitors only: number of competitors to skip, for paging.
`fields`	string or array of string	No	-	Result columns to keep, e.g. backlinks, referring_domains, rank, backlinks_spam_score, broken_backlinks, referring_links_types. Leave empty for every column the report returns.

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. For regex values, escape backslashes once in the JSON string: write \b for a word boundary, not \b.

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] profile: a single row with target, rank, backlinks, backlinks_spam_score, referring_domains, referring_domains_nofollow, referring_main_domains, referring_pages, referring_ips, referring_subnets, broken_backlinks, broken_pages, crawled_pages, internal_links_count, external_links_count, first_seen, lost_date, info (server, cms, platform types, IP, country, target spam score) and the referring_links_tld, referring_links_types, referring_links_attributes, referring_links_platform_types, referring_links_semantic_locations and referring_links_countries maps. competitors: one row per domain with target, rank and intersections. Fields: target, rank, backlinks, referring_domains, referring_main_domains, backlinks_spam_score, broken_backlinks Example:

[
  {
    "target": "ahrefs.com",
    "rank": 596,
    "backlinks": 7061158,
    "referring_domains": 58420,
    "backlinks_spam_score": 12
  }
]

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