linked_anchors - Ahrefs API

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Documentation - linked_anchors

Contains the anchor text and the number of outgoing links that have it.

Each request to linked_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 outgoing link from the target domain.
links_internal	int	+	+	Number of internal outgoing links found that are using the anchor text.
links_external	int	+	+	Number of external outgoing links found that are using the anchor text.
url_from	string	+	−	URL of the page where the outgoing link is found.
url_to	string	+	−	URL of the page the outgoing link is pointing to.
ahrefs_rank	int	+	−	URL Rating of the referring page.
domain_rating	int	+	−	Domain Rating of the referring domain.
ip	string	+	−	IP address of the page.
page_size	int	+	−	Size of the referring page, in bytes.
encoding	string	+	−	Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1).
title	string	+	−	Title of the referring page.
first_seen	date	+	−	Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
last_visited	date	+	−	Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
prev_visited	date	+	−	Second to the most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
original	boolean	+	−	Indicates whether the backlink was present on the referring page when the Ahrefs crawler first visited it.
link_type	string	+	−	Either "href", "redirect", "frame", "form", "canonical", "rss", or "alternate".
redirect	int	+	−	For redirected links, the Redirect Code (3XX), zero otherwise.
nofollow	boolean	+	−	Indicates whether the backlink is NoFollow.
alt	string	+	−	Alternative text of the image backlink, if exists.
text_pre	string	+	−	Snippet before the anchor text.
text_post	string	+	−	Snippet after the anchor text.

Examples

xml json

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=linked_anchors&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=4&order_by=links_external%3Adesc&output=json

Response

{
  "anchors": [
    {
      "anchor": "",
      "links_internal": 426907,
      "links_external": 337056
    },
    {
      "anchor": "www.robotstxt.org",
      "links_internal": 0,
      "links_external": 7915
    },
    {
      "anchor": "Tweets by @ahrefs",
      "links_internal": 0,
      "links_external": 424
    },
    {
      "anchor": "linkedin",
      "links_internal": 0,
      "links_external": 208
    }
  ]
}