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Documentation - anchors

Contains the anchor text and the number of backlinks, referring pages and referring domains that has it.

Each request to anchors costs 1 row.
Each result costs 1 row.
Using 'offset' costs 5 rows.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.

• anchors

Column Type Where Having Description
anchor string + + Anchor text used in at least one backlink from the referring domain.
backlinks int + + Number of external backlinks found that are using the anchor text.
refpages int + + Number of pages found containing backlinks that are using the anchor text.
refdomain string + − Referring domain that contains at least one backlink using the anchor text.
refdomains int − + Number of referring domains that are using the anchor text when linking to the target.
first_seen date + + Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink that is using the anchor text.
last_visited date + + Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink that is using the anchor text.

• stats

Column Type Where Having Description
backlinks int − − Total number of backlinks that are using the anchor.
refpages int − − Total number of referring pages that are using the anchor.

Examples

xml json

Request

http://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=anchors&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=2&output=xml

Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AhrefsApiResponse>
  <anchors>
    <anchor>
      <anchor>
        $11.99/month
      </anchor>
      <backlinks>
        2
      </backlinks>
      <refpages>
        2
      </refpages>
      <refdomains>
        1
      </refdomains>
      <first_seen>
        2013-08-08T19:04:00Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        2013-08-08T20:18:13Z
      </last_visited>
    </anchor>
    <anchor>
      <anchor>
        $79/month to $499/month
      </anchor>
      <backlinks>
        2
      </backlinks>
      <refpages>
        2
      </refpages>
      <refdomains>
        2
      </refdomains>
      <first_seen>
        2013-09-28T18:18:27Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        2013-10-03T05:23:31Z
      </last_visited>
    </anchor>
  </anchors>
  <stats>
    <backlinks>
      2574830
    </backlinks>
    <refpages>
      2560709
    </refpages>
  </stats>
</AhrefsApiResponse>