domains | string or array of string | No | - | Domains that must appear in the AI answer, as a list or newline/comma-separated text (bare domains such as ahrefs.com). Use this to track a brand’s website being cited or linked. At least one domain or keyword is required; up to 10 targets in total. |
keywords | string or array of string | No | - | Words or phrases that must appear in the AI answer, question or named brands, e.g. a brand name or a product category. List or newline/comma-separated text. All included domains and keywords must match together (AND). |
excluded_domains | string or array of string | No | - | Domains that must NOT appear in the matched answers, e.g. wikipedia.org. |
excluded_keywords | string or array of string | No | - | Words or phrases that must NOT appear in the matched answers. |
domain_scope | string or SelectableOption | No | any | Where a domain has to appear: ‘any’ (default), ‘sources’ (cited in the answer) or ‘search_results’ (retrieved by the web search behind the answer; ChatGPT only). |
keyword_scope | string or SelectableOption | No | any | Where a keyword has to appear: ‘any’ (default), ‘question’ (the user prompt), ‘answer’ (the AI answer text), ‘brand_entities’ (brands named in the answer) or ‘fan_out_queries’ (the follow-up searches the model ran). |
keyword_match_type | string or SelectableOption | No | word_match | ’word_match’ (default) matches whole words, so ‘light’ also matches ‘light bulb’; ‘partial_match’ matches substrings, so ‘light’ also matches ‘lighting’. |
include_subdomains | boolean | No | True | Also match subdomains of the target domains, which includes the www. host most sites are cited under. Defaults to true; turn it off to count only the bare domain. |
platform | string or SelectableOption | No | all | AI platform: ‘all’ (default), ‘google’ (Google AI Overviews and AI Mode) or ‘chat_gpt’. ChatGPT data exists for the United States in English only; every other location and language is Google only. |
location | string or SelectableOption | No | 2840 | Country or location: a two-letter country code (us, gb, de…), a DataForSEO location code (2840 = United States) or a full location name. Defaults to the United States. Only locations listed by DataForSEO for LLM Mentions have data. |
language | string or SelectableOption | No | en | Language code of the AI answers, e.g. en, de, es, fr, nl. Defaults to en. |
report | string or SelectableOption | No | monthly | ’monthly’ (default): mentions and AI search volume per calendar month. ‘change’: the difference in mentions and AI search volume between consecutive periods. ‘new_lost’: AI answers that started or stopped mentioning the targets per period. |
date_from | string | No | - | Start of the range in YYYY-MM-DD format, not earlier than 2025-08-01. Defaults to the earliest data for monthly and to 6 months ago for change and new_lost. |
date_to | string | No | - | End of the range in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to today. |
group_range | string or SelectableOption | No | month | change and new_lost only: period length, one of day, week, month (default) or year. |