SEO Referring domains API
Get AnyAPI SEO referring domains for a domain or URL, each with its backlink count, authority rank, spam score, and first seen date as normalized JSON.
$0.08/1k results, pay per request, no subscription.
{"domain":Â "techcrunch.com","rank":Â 912,"backlinks":Â 41,"spamScore":Â 1,"referringPages":Â 12,"referringPagesNofollow":Â 3,"brokenBacklinks":Â 0,"firstSeenUtc":Â 1701388800,... 14 more fields}
Pricing
SEO Referring domains API pricing
Call it
Get SEO referring domains in one request
import os, requests res = requests.post( "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/seo.referring_domains", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ANYAPI_KEY']}"}, json={ "target": "" }, ) print(res.json())
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{
"found": true,
"data": {
"totalCount": 6120,
"referringDomains": [
{
"domain": "techcrunch.com",
"rank": 912,
"backlinks": 41,
"spamScore": 1,
"referringPages": 12,
"referringPagesNofollow": 3,
"brokenBacklinks": 0,
"firstSeenUtc": 1701388800,
"referringDomains": 88400,
"referringDomainsNofollow": 12100,
"referringMainDomains": 76200,
"referringMainDomainsNofollow": 10900,
"referringIps": 61200,
"referringSubnets": 42100,
"linksByTld": {
"com": 30,
"io": 6
},
"linksByType": {
"anchor": 38
},
"linksByAttribute": {
"nofollow": 3
},
"linksByPlatformType": {
"news": 41
},
"linksBySemanticLocation": {
"article": 39
},
"linksByCountry": {
"us": 34
}
},
{
"domain": "producthunt.com",
"rank": 861,
"backlinks": 128,
"spamScore": 2,
"referringPages": 34,
"referringPagesNofollow": 34,
"brokenBacklinks": 2,
"firstSeenUtc": 1685577600,
"referringDomains": 52100,
"referringMainDomains": 47800,
"referringIps": 38900,
"linksByTld": {
"com": 90
},
"linksByType": {
"anchor": 120
},
"linksByAttribute": {
"nofollow": 128
},
"linksByCountry": {
"us": 70
}
},
{
"domain": "indiehackers.com",
"rank": 704,
"backlinks": 19,
"spamScore": 4,
"referringPages": 9,
"referringPagesNofollow": 2,
"brokenBacklinks": 0,
"firstSeenUtc": 1717200000,
"lostUtc": 1751328000,
"referringDomains": 8900,
"referringMainDomains": 8100,
"linksByTld": {
"com": 19
},
"linksByType": {
"anchor": 17,
"image": 2
},
"linksByCountry": {
"us": 15
}
}
]
}
}Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.
Reference
One request, one response shape.
Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.
Last verified 2026-11-08 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- targetstring
linear.app
Domain, subdomain, or full page URL to analyze. Send a domain without a protocol or leading www.
- includeSubdomainsboolean
true
Count links pointing at the target's subdomains as well as the target itself.
- limitinteger
10
Maximum number of referring domains to return. You are billed per returned result, so a lower limit costs less.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
Domains linking to the target. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- backlinksinteger
41
Backlinks from this domain to the target. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- brokenBacklinksinteger
0
Backlinks from this domain to target pages that no longer resolve.
- brokenPagesinteger
Target pages with an error status that this domain still links to.
- domainstring
techcrunch.com
Referring domain. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- firstSeenUtcnumber
1701388800
When a link from this domain was first seen. UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- linksByAttributeobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by rel attribute (nofollow, sponsored, ugc, noopener, and so on).
- linksByCountryobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by country code of the linking domain. An empty key means the country is unknown.
- linksByPlatformTypeobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by type of linking site (blogs, news, ecommerce, and so on).
- linksBySemanticLocationobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by the page section holding the link (article, footer, nav, and so on). An empty key means no section was detected.
- linksByTldobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by top-level domain of the linking page.
- linksByTypeobject
Count of this domain's links to the target, by link type (anchor, image, redirect, canonical, alternate).
- lostUtcnumber
When this domain's last link to the target was lost, if it was. UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- rankinteger
912
Authority rank of the referring domain on a 0-1000 scale. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- referringDomainsinteger
88400
Distinct domains linking to this referring domain.
- referringDomainsNofollowinteger
12100
Domains whose every link to this referring domain is nofollow.
- referringIpsinteger
61200
Distinct IP addresses among this domain's linking pages.
- referringMainDomainsinteger
76200
Distinct registrable domains linking to this referring domain.
- referringMainDomainsNofollowinteger
10900
Registrable domains whose every link to this referring domain is nofollow.
- referringPagesinteger
12
Pages on this domain linking to the target.
- referringPagesNofollowinteger
3
Pages on this domain whose links to the target are all nofollow.
- referringSubnetsinteger
42100
Distinct subnets among this domain's linking pages.
- spamScoreinteger
1
Average spam score of this domain's backlinks on a 0-100 scale.
- totalCountinteger
6120
Total referring domains, before the limit. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- foundboolean
true
- reason"not_found"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
FAQ
About the SEO Referring domains API
The AnyAPI SEO Referring domains API returns SEO referring domains data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/seo.referring_domains. Get AnyAPI SEO referring domains for a domain or URL, each with its backlink count, authority rank, spam score, and first seen date as normalized JSON. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs $0.08 per 1,000 results, and never more than $0.0768 for a single request, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of SEO referring domains calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.8 seconds across 32 measured calls.