How to get backlinks with the API
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How do i use the MOZ API to get backlinks report?
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I'm afraid not for bash curls. We do share example code for calling our API using other languages at https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples
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Can you think of any other method for doing the subdomain backlink search? I posted the code above if you want to play with it.
Or for that matter anyone can try it out.
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Anytime!
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see below curl bash examples for Moz API:
#!/bin/bash
Usage: ./moz-test.sh callmydoc.com or ./moz-test.sh solimancare.schedulemypatient.com
Note: backlinks for subdomains does not return results yet.
access_id="mozscape-xx"
secret_key="xx"searchurl=$1
echo "Checking backlinks for ["$searchurl"]"
endpoint="lsapi.seomoz.com"timenow=$(date +%s)
timeend=$(( ${timenow} + (606024) ))
stringToSign=${access_id}$'\n'${timeend}
signature=$(echo -n "${stringToSign}" | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac "${secret_key}" -binary | base64)
signature=$(echo ${signature} | sed 's/+/%2B/g;s/=/%3D/g')start=0
end=300
echo "Checking for practices from $start to $end"
rm found_urls.txt
touch found_urls.txt
for (( i=$start; i<$end; i++ )); do
numberofdots=$(echo $searchurl | grep -o "." | wc -l)
echo "number of dots ["$numberofdots"]"
if [ "$numberofdots" == "1" ]; then
url="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/$searchurl?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}&Scope=page_to_domain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=25"url2="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/$searchurl?Cols=4&AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}"
echo "Calling Moz url-metrics API with ["$url2"]"
curl $url
echo
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."
echo
else
url="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/$searchurl?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}&Scope=page_to_subdomain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=25"
fi
echo "Calling Moz API with ["$url"]"
curl $url > backlink-results.json
echo
jq -r '.[].uu' < backlink-results.json >> found_urls.txt
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."
echosleep a random amount between 1 and 30 seconds to not crush moz API
sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 50 ) + 1 ]s
(( i + 50 ))
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got it! really really appreciate your help!
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That URL is not an API call as it is a direct link to our online web app via web browser.
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so the call would be like: url="https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=$searchurl?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}"?
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This will mean we have not discovered links from external sites to pages at those domains
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You would only need to enter the domain in the search field on OSE to return metrics you can compare against API results.
OSE is our web app which calls our API.
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so I would take the json returned from the http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links call and feed it back into this to cross reference, corect?
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jeez. 8-( Ok, got it. wow, sorry. fixed. Now: http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/solimancare.schedulemypatient.com?AccessID=mozscape-xx&Expires=xx&Signature=xx%3D&Scope=page_to_subdomain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=50&Offset=0
does not return anything, just []. It should show at least one of cal.callmydoc.com, solimancare.com, shantiquesparoom.com
should I tune up the parameters to be more specific?
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Hi Carl
The call is malformed with an additional scope parameter: http://www.screencast.com/t/zTqfBb0NuAO
If you remove the extra &Scope=
The call should work
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this is for my wife's practice: http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/solimancare.schedulemypatient.com?AccessID=mozscape-xx&Expires=xx&Signature=xx%3D&Scope=&Scope=page_to_subdomain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=50&Offset=0
returns:
{
"status" : "403",
"error_message" : "Permission denied: naieofimocidphjeoaifmdkkmllomolnnf"
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Can you paste the full URL call your app generated minus credentials so I can take a look?
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all i did was change that one parameter but now i am getting:
{
"status" : "403",
"error_message" : "Permission denied: blepcoehcjeidmfpcleoaigbaahfafhgbo"
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Also to test your results, you can cross-reference by filtering page/sub-domain/root-domain directly on OSE https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=10.billing.callmydoc.com&filter=&source=external&target=domain&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=
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You would only need to adjust the scope to be &Scope=page_to_subdomain
as the above example would only give you results to any page at callmydoc.com
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THIS IS AWESOME! If i am checking a subdomain, like 10.billing.callmydoc.com, do I need to do something different?
As usual, I will repost my findings once completed. 8-)
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Hey Carl!
We do provide examples in the documentation. They can be filtered in many ways.
Here is a very basic call that will return the first 25 links to all pages going to moz.com which will provide the linking page and the page being link to
The first result will look like this:
[0] => Array
(
[lrid] => 460538186303
[lsrc] => 131443324666
[lt] => "Google Algorithm Change History"
[ltgt] => 68767261786
[luuu] => moz.com/google-algorithm-change
[uu] => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_PandaHope this helps!
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in other words, does someone have an example of the API parameters for the backlink API call?
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what is the specific API call to show backlinks on my URL?
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Hi Dinom
Keep in mind this is not a number of ALL of your backlinks as our tool is not a complete index of all of your links. Our link discovery methods are based on Domain Authority to only show you quality links to a domain. There isn't a single call to fetch all of the links as there is a limit of 25 rows of data you can return for each call and there is a rate limit.
The options you have can be found here:
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Hi David,
What i want is to use the API to give me the list of backlinks for my website. Something like the webapp u already have. But i want to know the API call which can be used to achieve that. The link you gave...that can only be used to find out the number of links (all including backlink, external, no follow foloow etc)..what i am requesting is that is there a API call which would list down the backlink urls for me?
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Hi Dino
URL-Metrics for the API can be found here: http://apiwiki.moz.com/url-metrics
Hope this helps
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