pages_extended - Ahrefs API

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Documentation - pages_extended

Contains additional metrics about the target, such as total number of referring domains, referring class C networks and referring IP addresses.

Each request to pages_extended costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.

• pages

Column	Type	Where	Having	Description
url	string	+	+	URL of the crawled page.
ahrefs_rank	int	+	+	URL Rating of the page.
first_seen	date	+	+	Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to crawl the page.
last_visited	date	+	+	Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to crawl the page.
http_code	int	+	+	HTTP code that was last returned for the page.
size	int	+	+	Size of the crawled page, in bytes.
links_internal	int	+	+	Number of internal links found in the crawled page.
links_external	int	+	+	Number of external links found in the crawled page.
encoding	string	+	+	Character encoding of the page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1).
title	string	+	+	Title of the crawled page.
redirect_url	string	+	+	URL where the page redirects to.
content_encoding	string	+	+	Type of encoding used to compress the page data, for example "gzip" or "deflate".
backlinks	int	+	+	Number of external backlinks found on the referring pages that link to the crawled page.
dofollow	int	+	+	Number of DoFollow backlinks that link to the crawled page.
nofollow	int	+	+	Number of NoFollow backlinks that link to the crawled page.
redirects	int	+	+	Number of pages found that redirect to the crawled page.
refdomains	int	+	+	Number of domains containing at least one backlink that links to the crawled page.
refclass_c	int	+	+	Number of referring class C networks that link to the crawled page.
refips	int	+	+	Number of distinct IP addresses under a single network that link to the crawled page.

Examples

xml json

Request

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

Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AhrefsApiResponse>
  <pages>
    <page>
      <url>
        https://ahrefs.com/
      </url>
      <ahrefs_rank>
        85
      </ahrefs_rank>
      <first_seen>
        2013-11-20T09:46:29Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        2013-11-20T09:46:29Z
      </last_visited>
      <http_code>
        200
      </http_code>
      <size>
        9211
      </size>
      <links_internal>
        26
      </links_internal>
      <links_external>
        4
      </links_external>
      <encoding>
        utf8
      </encoding>
      <title>
        Ahrefs Site Explorer &amp; Backlink Checker
      </title>
      <redirect_url>
        
      </redirect_url>
      <content_encoding>
        gzip
      </content_encoding>
      <backlinks>
        15901
      </backlinks>
      <dofollow>
        6186
      </dofollow>
      <nofollow>
        9144
      </nofollow>
      <redirects>
        571
      </redirects>
      <refdomains>
        1134
      </refdomains>
      <refclass_c>
        836
      </refclass_c>
      <refips>
        964
      </refips>
    </page>
    <page>
      <url>
        http://ahrefs.com/
      </url>
      <ahrefs_rank>
        0
      </ahrefs_rank>
      <first_seen>
        2013-11-20T09:46:29Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
      </last_visited>
      <http_code>
        0
      </http_code>
      <size>
        0
      </size>
      <links_internal>
        0
      </links_internal>
      <links_external>
        0
      </links_external>
      <encoding>
        
      </encoding>
      <title>
        
      </title>
      <redirect_url>
        
      </redirect_url>
      <content_encoding>
        
      </content_encoding>
      <backlinks>
        0
      </backlinks>
      <dofollow>
        0
      </dofollow>
      <nofollow>
        0
      </nofollow>
      <redirects>
        0
      </redirects>
      <refdomains>
        2334
      </refdomains>
      <refclass_c>
        1342
      </refclass_c>
      <refips>
        1537
      </refips>
    </page>
  </pages>
  <stats>
    <pages>
      393209
    </pages>
  </stats>
</AhrefsApiResponse>

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=pages_extended&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=2&output=json

Response

{
  "pages":[
    {
      "url":"https://ahrefs.com/",
      "ahrefs_rank":85,
      "first_seen":"2013-11-20T09:46:29Z",
      "last_visited":"2013-11-20T09:46:29Z",
      "http_code":200,
      "size":9211,
      "links_internal":26,
      "links_external":4,
      "encoding":"utf8",
      "title":"Ahrefs Site Explorer & Backlink Checker",
      "redirect_url":"",
      "content_encoding":"gzip",
      "backlinks":15901,
      "dofollow":6186,
      "nofollow":9144,
      "redirects":571,
      "refdomains":1134,
      "refclass_c":836,
      "refips":964
    },
    {
      "url":"http://ahrefs.com/",
      "ahrefs_rank":0,
      "first_seen":"2013-11-20T09:46:29Z",
      "last_visited":"1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "http_code":0,
      "size":0,
      "links_internal":0,
      "links_external":0,
      "encoding":"",
      "title":"",
      "redirect_url":"",
      "content_encoding":"",
      "backlinks":0,
      "dofollow":0,
      "nofollow":0,
      "redirects":0,
      "refdomains":2334,
      "refclass_c":1342,
      "refips":1537
    }
  ],
  "stats":{
    "pages":393209
  }
}