refdomains_new_lost - Ahrefs API

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Documentation - refdomains_new_lost

Contains the new or lost referring domains and their details.

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

• refdomains

Column	Type	Where	Having	Description
date	date	+	+	Date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit new or lost backlinks from the referring domain.
type	string	+	+	Indicates whether the backlinks from the referring domain are new or lost.
refdomain	string	+	+	Referring domain that contains at least one link to the target.
domain_rating	int	−	+	Domain Rating of the referring domain.

Examples

xml json

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=refdomains_new_lost&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=3&order_by=domain_rating%3Adesc&where=date%3D%222013-11-24%22%2Ctype%3D%22lost%22&output=json

Response

{
  "refdomains":[
    {
      "date":"2013-11-24",
      "type":"lost",
      "refdomain":"alloexpat.com",
      "domain_rating":63
    },
    {
      "date":"2013-11-24",
      "type":"lost",
      "refdomain":"dnslookup.fr",
      "domain_rating":54
    },
    {
      "date":"2013-11-24",
      "type":"lost",
      "refdomain":"acousticintegration.com",
      "domain_rating":49
    }
  ]
}