anchors - Ahrefs API

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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 in the response costs 1 row.
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

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

Response

{
  "anchors": [
    {
      "anchor":"$11.99/month",
      "backlinks":2,
      "refpages":2,
      "refdomains":1,
      "first_seen":"2013-08-08T19:04:00Z",
      "last_visited":"2013-08-08T20:18:13Z"
    },
    {
      "anchor":"$79/month to $499/month",
      "backlinks":2,
      "refpages":2,
      "refdomains":2,
      "first_seen":"2013-09-28T18:18:27Z",
      "last_visited":"2013-10-03T05:23:31Z"
    }
  ],
  "stats":{
    "backlinks":2574830,
    "refpages":2560709
  }
}