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Documentation - linked_domains_by_type
Contains the external domains that the target has links to.
Each request to linked_domains_by_type costs 10 rows.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
Using 'where' costs 10 rows.
Using 'having' costs 10 rows.
• domains
| Column | Type | Where | Having | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| domain_from | string | + | + | Target of the request. |
| domain_to | string | + | + | Root of external domain that has links from the target. |
| links | int | − | + | Number of external links from the target that link to the external domain. |
| all | int | − | + | Number of external links from the target that link to the external domain. |
| text | int | − | + | Number of text external links from the target. |
| image | int | − | + | Number of image external links from the target. |
| nofollow | int | − | + | Number of NoFollow external links from the target. |
| dofollow | int | − | + | Number of DoFollow external links from the target. |
| redirect | int | − | + | Number of redirection external links from the target. |
| canonical | int | − | + | Number of canonical external links from the target. |
| gov | int | − | + | Number of external links from the target to governmental domain. |
| edu | int | − | + | Number of external links from the target to educational domain. |
| rss | int | − | + | Number of RSS external links from the target. |
| alternate | int | − | + | Number of alternate external links from the target. |
| first_seen | date | + | + | Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to see the link on the target. |
| last_visited | date | + | + | Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to see the link on the target. |
| domain_to_rating | int | − | + | Domain Rating of the external domain. |
| domain_to_ahrefs_top | int | − | + | Ahrefs rank of the external domain. |
Examples
Request
https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=linked_domains_by_type&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=3&where=gov%3E0&output=json
Response
{
"domains": [{
"domain_from": "ahrefs.com",
"domain_to": "fightspam.gc.ca",
"domain_to_top": "fightspam.gc.ca",
"links": 1,
"all": 1,
"text": 1,
"image": 0,
"nofollow": 0,
"dofollow": 1,
"redirect": 0,
"canonical": 0,
"gov": 1,
"edu": 0,
"rss": 0,
"alternate": 0,
"first_seen": "2015-12-20T03:07:25Z",
"last_visited": "2016-07-17T23:48:13Z",
"domain_to_rating": 63,
"domain_to_ahrefs_top": 20041
}, {
"domain_from": "ahrefs.com",
"domain_to": "uspto.gov",
"domain_to_top": "uspto.gov",
"links": 3,
"all": 3,
"text": 3,
"image": 0,
"nofollow": 0,
"dofollow": 3,
"redirect": 0,
"canonical": 0,
"gov": 3,
"edu": 0,
"rss": 0,
"alternate": 0,
"first_seen": "2015-12-10T09:08:49Z",
"last_visited": "2016-07-31T09:15:14Z",
"domain_to_rating": 74,
"domain_to_ahrefs_top": 747
}, {
"domain_from": "ahrefs.com",
"domain_to": "irs.gov",
"domain_to_top": "irs.gov",
"links": 2,
"all": 2,
"text": 2,
"image": 0,
"nofollow": 0,
"dofollow": 2,
"redirect": 0,
"canonical": 0,
"gov": 2,
"edu": 0,
"rss": 0,
"alternate": 0,
"first_seen": "2015-11-29T16:54:24Z",
"last_visited": "2016-07-31T07:00:59Z",
"domain_to_rating": 78,
"domain_to_ahrefs_top": 225
}],
"stats": {
"linked_domains": 5,
"all": 5,
"text": 5,
"image": 0,
"nofollow": 2,
"dofollow": 3,
"redirect": 0,
"canonical": 0,
"gov": 5,
"edu": 0,
"rss": 0,
"alternate": 0,
"max_links": 3,
"max_links_dofollow": 3,
"total_links": 9,
"total_links_dofollow": 6
},
"tlds": [{
"tld": "gov",
"count": 3
}, {
"tld": "ca",
"count": 1
}, {
"tld": "cn",
"count": 1
}]
}