> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://aisa.one/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anchors > This endpoint will provide you with a detailed overview of anchors used when linking to the specified website with relevant backlink data for each of them. ## OpenAPI ````yaml openapi/dataforseo.json POST /dataforseo/backlinks/anchors/live openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: DataForSEO API version: 1.0.0 description: DataForSEO API endpoints exposed through the AIsa unified gateway. servers: - url: https://api.aisa.one/apis/v1 security: - BearerAuth: [] paths: /dataforseo/backlinks/anchors/live: post: summary: Anchors description: >- This endpoint will provide you with a detailed overview of anchors used when linking to the specified website with relevant backlink data for each of them. operationId: post_dataforseo_backlinks_anchors_live requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: target: type: string description: >- domain, subdomain or webpage to get anchors for required field a domain or a subdomain should be specified without https:// and www. a page should be specified with absolute URL (including http:// or https://) limit: type: integer description: >- the maximum number of returned anchors optional field default value: 100 maximum value: 1000 offset: type: integer description: >- offset in the results array of returned anchors optional field default value: 0 if you specify the 10 value, the first ten anchors in the results array will be omitted and the data will be provided for the successive anchors internal_list_limit: type: integer description: >- maximum number of elements within internal arrays optional field you can use this field to limit the number of elements within the following arrays: referring_links_tld referring_links_types referring_links_attributes referring_links_platform_types referring_links_semantic_locations default value: 10 maximum value: 1000 backlinks_status_type: type: string description: >- set what backlinks to return and count optional field you can use this field to choose what backlinks will be returned and used for aggregated metrics for your target; possible values: all – all backlinks will be returned and counted; live – backlinks found during the last check will be returned and counted; lost – lost backlinks will be returned and counted; default value: live filters: type: array items: type: string description: >- array of results filtering parameters optional field you can add several filters at once (8 filters maximum) you should set a logical operator and, or between the conditions the following operators are supported: regex, not_regex, =, , in, not_in, like, not_like, ilike, not_ilike, match, not_match you can use the % operator with like and not_like to match any string of zero or more characters example: ["referring_links_types.anchors",">","1"] [["broken_pages",">","2"], "and", ["backlinks",">","10"]] [["first_seen",">","2017-10-23 11:31:45 +00:00"], "and", [["anchor","like","%seo%"],"or",["referring_domains",">","10"]]] The full list of possible filters is available here. order_by: type: array items: type: string description: >- results sorting rules optional field you can use the same values as in the filters array to sort the results possible sorting types: asc – results will be sorted in the ascending order desc – results will be sorted in the descending order you should use a comma to set up a sorting type example: ["backlinks,desc"] note that you can set no more than three sorting rules in a single request you should use a comma to separate several sorting rules example: ["backlinks,desc","rank,asc"] backlinks_filters: type: array items: type: string description: >- filter the backlinks of your target optional field you can use this field to filter the initial backlinks that will be included in the dataset for aggregated metrics for your target you can filter the backlinks by all fields available in the response of this endpoint using this parameter, you can include only dofollow backlinks in the response and create a flexible backlinks dataset to calculate the metrics for example: "backlinks_filters": [["dofollow", "=", true]] include_subdomains: type: boolean description: >- indicates if the subdomains of the target will be included in the search optional field if set to false, the subdomains will be ignored default value: true include_indirect_links: type: boolean description: >- indicates if indirect links to the target will be included in the results optional field if set to true, the results will include data on indirect links pointing to a page that either redirects to the target, or points to a canonical page if set to false, indirect links will be ignored default value: true exclude_internal_backlinks: type: boolean description: >- indicates whether the backlinks from subdomains of the target are excluded optional field if set to false, the backlinks from subdomains of the target will be ommited and you won’t receive the same domain in the response; default value: true rank_scale: type: string description: >- defines the scale used for calculating and displaying the rank, domain_from_rank, and page_from_rank values optional field you can use this parameter to choose whether rank values are presented on a 0–100 or 0–1000 scale possible values: one_hundred — rank values are displayed on a 0–100 scale one_thousand — rank values are displayed on a 0–1000 scale default value: one_thousand learn more about how this parameter works and how ranking metrics are calculated in this Help Center article tag: type: string description: >- user-defined task identifier optional field the character limit is 255 you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response required: - target responses: '200': description: Successful response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: version: type: string description: the current version of the API status_code: type: integer description: >- general status code you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions status_message: type: string description: >- general informational message you can find the full list of general informational messages here time: type: string description: execution time, seconds cost: type: number description: total tasks cost, USD tasks_count: type: integer description: the number of tasks in the tasks array tasks_error: type: integer description: >- the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error tasks: type: array items: type: string description: array of tasks tasks.id: type: string description: >- task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format tasks.status_code: type: integer description: >- status code of the task generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000 you can find the full list of the response codes here tasks.status_message: type: string description: >- informational message of the task you can find the full list of general informational messages here tasks.time: type: string description: execution time, seconds tasks.cost: type: number description: cost of the task, USD tasks.result_count: type: integer description: number of elements in the result array tasks.path: type: array items: type: string description: URL path tasks.data: type: object description: >- contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request tasks.result: type: array items: type: string description: array of results tasks.result.target: type: string description: target in the post array tasks.result.total_count: type: integer description: total number of relevant items in the database tasks.result.items_count: type: integer description: number of items in the results array tasks.result.items: type: array items: type: string description: items array tasks.result.items.type: type: string description: type of element = ‘backlinks_anchor’ tasks.result.items.anchor: type: string description: anchor of the backlink tasks.result.items.rank: type: integer description: >- rank of the anchor links rank volume that referring websites pass to the target through links with a particular anchor rank is calculated based on the method for node ranking in a linked database – a principle used in the original Google PageRank algorithm learn more about the metric and how it is calculated in this help center article tasks.result.items.backlinks: type: integer description: indicates the number of backlinks tasks.result.items.first_seen: type: string description: >- date and time when our crawler found the backlink with this anchor for the first time in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00 tasks.result.items.lost_date: type: string description: >- date and time when the last backlink with this anchor was lost indicates the date and time when our crawler visited the page and it responded with 4xx or 5xx status code or the last backlink was removed in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00” example: 2017-01-24 13:20:59 +00:00 tasks.result.items.backlinks_spam_score: type: integer description: >- average spam score of all backlinks with this anchor learn more about how the metric is calculated on this help center page tasks.result.items.broken_backlinks: type: integer description: >- number of broken backlinks number of broken backlinks pointing to the target tasks.result.items.broken_pages: type: integer description: >- number of broken pages number of pages that respond with 4xx or 5xx status codes where backlinks are pointing to tasks.result.items.referring_domains: type: integer description: indicates the number of referring domains tasks.result.items.referring_domains_nofollow: type: integer description: >- number of domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target tasks.result.items.referring_main_domains: type: integer description: indicates the number of referring main domains tasks.result.items.referring_main_domains_nofollow: type: integer description: >- number of main domains pointing at least one nofollow link to the target tasks.result.items.referring_ips: type: integer description: >- number of referring IP addresses number of IP addresses pointing to this page tasks.result.items.referring_subnets: type: integer description: number of referring subnetworks tasks.result.items.referring_pages: type: integer description: >- indicates the number of pages pointing to target with this anchor tasks.result.items.referring_links_tld: type: object description: >- top-level domains of the referring links contains top level domains and referring link count per each tasks.result.items.referring_links_types: type: object description: >- types of referring links indicates the types of the referring links and link count per each type possible values: anchor, image, link, meta, canonical, alternate, redirect tasks.result.items.referring_links_attributes: type: object description: >- link attributes of the referring links indicates link attributes of the referring links and link count per each attribute tasks.result.items.referring_links_platform_types: type: object description: >- types of referring platforms indicates referring platform types and and link count per each platform possible values: cms, blogs, ecommerce, message-boards, wikis, news, organization tasks.result.items.referring_links_semantic_locations: type: object description: >- semantic locations of the referring links indicates semantic elements in HTML where the referring links are located and link count per each semantic location you can get the full list of semantic elements here examples: article, section, summary tasks.result.items.referring_links_countries: type: object description: >- ISO country codes of the referring links indicates ISO country codes of the domains where the referring links are located and the link count per each country tasks.result.items.referring_pages_nofollow: type: integer description: >- number of referring pages pointing at least one nofollow link to the target with this anchor '400': description: Bad request '401': description: Unauthorized '429': description: Rate limit exceeded '500': description: Internal server error components: securitySchemes: BearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer ````