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Learn Ahrefs API: A Beginner Course

This course teaches you to run requests and unlock the full potential of Ahrefs data with our API.

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Who is this course for?

Anybody curious about how Ahrefs API works
Beginners who want to learn to use Ahrefs API
Ahrefs API users who want to optimize usage

It doesn't matter if you know nothing about APIs – this free training course was designed for people with zero technical background. By the end of seven short videos, you’ll be able to confidently run requests and unlock the full potential of Ahrefs data with our API.

7 lessons

11m

Total length

No sign-up required, and absolutely free of charge

What you’ll learn

What you can do with Ahrefs API.
How to make basic requests.
How to modify your requests with parameters.
How to run your requests in our free testing environment and optimize them.
How to calculate and control API unit costs.

Course breakdown

Ahrefs API Overview

1:32

Creating & managing API keys

0:46

Free testing environment

1:35

Making a request and receiving a response

1:32

Using request parameters

1:56

Calculating API units

2:55

Reducing API unit costs

1:42

Course by

Rebekah Bek

Rebekah Bek is a product marketer at Ahrefs. She enjoys breaking down complicated concepts and helping people feel good about learning.

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Amazing work. Thanks for the effort. I really appreciate it. Ahrefs is my favorite SEO tools. You guys are doing a phenomenal job.

Farris Harbi,

Youtube

Sam will literally make you an SEO specialist :). Thank you

Sourav Panda,

Youtube

This feels like so genuinely caring and honest it’s just mind-blowing. It is probably one of the best pieces of content I’ve ever saw on digital marketing

Yevheniy Kushnirenko,

Youtube

As always, Sam Oh hits it out of the park! Great video, and great tips. Keep it going!

Kandaman,

Youtube

These videos and the content generation course, helped me get a 307% increase in traffic. From 1.3k visitors to 25k/month in 3 months and 40 leads.

going2sleep,

Youtube

I have learned so many things from this video! Thank you so much Ahrefs and Sam for this amazing and value-loaded video!

Mohsin Ahmad,

Youtube

Sam, you have been a real open book for me and I’m sure for others as well. Tons of highly valuable content for web owners. Thanks a lot!

Daniel Garino,

Youtube

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