Link Metrics API: sort by domain authority not working?
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I’m trying to make calls to the Link Metrics API (via the Linkscape gem); queries that set sorting to :page_authority work, but queries that set it to :domain_authority return
Unrecognized API method: 'links/page_to_domain.domain_authority'
Unrecognized API method: 'links/page_to_page.domain_authority'
Meanwhile, Open Site Explorer happily sorts by domain authority.
How should I query the Link Metrics API to get results sorted by domain authority?
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Hello,
You're correct, currently the API does not offer this call directly. However, we've escalated the question to our engineers who are looking at the issue now. I expect if they do make the change they'll mention it on the devblog: devblog.moz.com
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Please let me know whether I’m right in assuming there’s no way to obtain the below results via the API:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links.html?group=0&page=1&site=moz.com%2Fblog&sort=domain_authority (page to page, sort by domain authority)
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains.html?page=1&scope=domain_to_page&site=moz.com%2Fblog&sort=domains_linking_domain (domain to page, sort by domains linking domain)
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I assume this is also why I can’t query links/domain_to_page.domains_linking_page (nor links/domain_to_page.domains_linking_domain), but I can links/domain_to_domain.domains_linking_domain – even though both of the below seem to work:
I.e., there’s no way to get the former link’s results from the API?
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Thanks for the quick answer (and it does make sense!).
Does this mean that there’s no way to obtain, say, top ten of these results (sorted this way) via the API (other than requesting all of the results and sorting by Domain Authority on the client side)? http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links.html?group=0&page=1&site=moz.com%2Fblog&sort=domain_authority
To the best of my understanding, this is page_to_page sorted by Domain Authority.
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Hey there,
Thanks for the question. The Links API's Domain Authority sort is actually working as intended. What's causing the problem is a compatibility between the 'page to xxxx' scope and the domain authority sort.
When running page scopes you are only able to sort by page authority.
I also noticed that that's not very well documented, so I'm going to try and put something together for everyone and put it up on the wiki at http://apiwiki.moz.comI hope that makes sense.
Cheers,
Joel.
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