SEOkicks Backlink Checker
SEOkicks uses its own crawlers for the continuous collection of link data and makes this data available via website, CSV export and API. The current index comprises over 200 billion link datasets.

SEOkicks Backlink API

With the SEOkicks web service, you can conveniently retrieve backlink data via REST to use for your own purposes. You must register an account in order to use the API. A different number of API credits are already available at no additional charge depending on the account type selected.

Backlink API Request URL

http://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData

Request Paraemter

Parameters Value Description
appid string (mandatory field) Please log in.
query string (mandatory field) The domain at which data is to be retrieved.
details no value (default)



or 1

or 2

or 3

or anchors

or targets

or recentlinks

or ip2domain

or api_credits
To be set when not only domain and link pop are to be queried. Otherwise please do not use this to obtain faster response times and to save credits.
details=1 returns the linking domains including the number of links per domain.
details=2 returns the exact linking pages including their link attributes.
details=3 returns precisely one exactly linking page including its link attributes.
details=anchors returns the anchor texts, sorted in descending order by frequency.
details=targets returns the link targets, sorted in descending order by frequency.
details=recentlinks returns the recently discovered links.
details=ip2domain expects an IP in query parameter and returns the hosted domains.
details=api_credits returns the number of API credits available.
results no value or integer Maximum number of results (if details>=1).
page no value or integer Desired results page (if details>=1).
output no value oder json API response: XML (default) or JSON.


Request costs

Each API request uses up 1 credit.

If detail data is retrieved (parameter details=1 or 2 or 3), an additional 0.1 credits are charged for each returned dataset. The max. number of returned datasets can be controlled by means of the results parameter (default: 50).

Example request for domain pop & link pop

Request

https://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData?appid=APPID&query=seokicks.de&output=json

Response

{
   "Overview" : {
      "linkpop" : "14852",
      "domainpop" : "545",
      "ippop" : "447",
      "netpop" : "369"
   }
}

Credits

1 Credit/request


Example request for linking domains

details=1 returns the linking domains including the number of links per domain.

Request

https://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData?appid=APPID&details=1&results=2&query=seokicks.de&output=json

Response

{
   "Overview" : {
      "linkpop" : "14853",
      "domainpop" : "546",
      "ippop" : "448",
      "netpop" : "370"
   },
   "Results" : [
      {
         "Index" : 1,
         "Domain" : "http://www.modified-shop.org",
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "Backlinks" : "2",
         "IP" : "213.133.110.47"
      },
      {
         "Index" : 2,
         "Domain" : "http://t3n.de",
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "Backlinks" : "1",
         "IP" : "37.49.153.240"
      }
   ]
}

Credits

1.2 Credits (1 credit/request + 2 datasets x 0.1 credit)


Example request for link details

details=2 returns the linking pages including their link attributes.

Request

https://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData?appid=APPID&details=2&results=3&query=seokicks.de&output=json

Response

{
   "Overview" : {
      "linkpop" : "14853",
      "domainpop" : "546",
      "ippop" : "448",
      "netpop" : "370"
   },
   "Results" : [
      {
         "Index" : 1,
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "IP" : "213.133.110.47",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://www.modified-shop.org/forum/index.php?topic=26607.0;prev_next=prev",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html"
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "Index" : 2,
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "IP" : "213.133.110.47",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://www.modified-shop.org/forum/index.php?topic=26599.0",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html"
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "Index" : 3,
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "IP" : "37.49.153.240",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://t3n.de/news/linkbuilding-tools-513437/",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "http://www.seokicks.de",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/"
            }
         ]
      },
   ]
}

Credits

1.3 Credits (1 credit/request + 3 datasets x 0.1 credit)


Example request for link details (1 link per domain)

details=3 returns precisely one exactly linking page per domain including its link attributes.

Request

https://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData?appid=APPID&details=3&results=3&query=seokicks.de&output=json

Response

{
   "Overview" : {
      "linkpop" : "14853",
      "domainpop" : "546",
      "ippop" : "448",
      "netpop" : "370"
   },
   "Results" : [
      {
         "Index" : 1,
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "IP" : "213.133.110.47",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://www.modified-shop.org/forum/index.php?topic=26599.0",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html"
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "Index" : 2,
         "DomainRank" : "10",
         "IP" : "37.49.153.240",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://t3n.de/news/linkbuilding-tools-513437/",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "http://www.seokicks.de",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/"
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "Index" : 3,
         "DomainRank" : "9",
         "IP" : "148.251.31.236",
         "UrlFrom" : "http://www.c-ompany.fr/1-2-3-BerlinZimmer.de-GmbH",
         "Links" : [
            {
               "Anchor" : "Backlink Analyse 123berlinzimmer.de » SEOkicks Backlinkcheck",
               "nofollow" : "1",
               "UrlTo" : "http://www.seokicks.de/backlinks/123berlinzimmer.de"
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

Credits

1.3 Credits (1 credit/request + 3 datasets x 0.1 credit)


Example request for API credit stats

Request

https://en.seokicks.de/SEOkicksService/V1/inlinkData?appid=APPID&details=api_credits&output=json

Response

{
   "Overview" : {
      "credits" : {
         "total" : "750000",
         "used" : "201141.0",
         "available" : "548859.0",
         "expire" : "2018-09-03"
      },
      "extracredits" : {
         "total" : "20000",
         "used" : "0.0",
         "available" : "20000.0"
      }
   }
}

Credits

1 Credit/Request