> ## 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. # Competitors > This endpoint will provide you with a list of competitors that share some part of the backlink profile with a target website, along with a number of backlink... ## OpenAPI ````yaml openapi/dataforseo.json POST /dataforseo/backlinks/competitors/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/competitors/live: post: summary: Competitors description: >- This endpoint will provide you with a list of competitors that share some part of the backlink profile with a target website, along with a number of backlink intersections and the rank of every competing website. operationId: post_dataforseo_backlinks_competitors_live requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: target: type: string description: >- domain, subdomain or webpage to get competitor domains 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 domains optional field default value: 100 maximum value: 1000 offset: type: integer description: >- offset in the results array of returned domains optional field default value: 0 if you specify the 10 value, the first ten domains in the results array will be omitted and the data will be provided for the successive pages 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: ["rank",">","100"] [["target","like","%forbes%"], "and", [["rank",">","100"],"or",["intersections",">","5"]]] 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: ["rank,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: ["intersections,desc","rank,asc"] main_domain: type: boolean description: >- indicates if only main domain of the target will be included in the search optional field if set to true, only the main domain will be included in search; default value: true exclude_large_domains: type: boolean description: >- indicates whether large domain will appear in results optional field if set to true, the results from the large domain (google.com, amazon.com, etc.) will be omitted; default value: true exclude_internal_backlinks: type: boolean description: >- indicates if internal backlinks from subdomains to the target will be excluded from the results optional field if set to true, the results will not include data on internal backlinks from subdomains of the same domain as target if set to false, internal links will be included in the results 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.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 items array tasks.result.items: type: array items: type: string description: items array tasks.result.items.type: type: string description: type of element = ‘backlinks_competitors’ tasks.result.items.target: type: string description: competitor domain tasks.result.items.rank: type: integer description: >- domain rank domain rank across all domains in the database 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.intersections: type: integer description: >- indicates the number of backlink intersections with the target specified in the POST array '400': description: Bad request '401': description: Unauthorized '429': description: Rate limit exceeded '500': description: Internal server error components: securitySchemes: BearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer ````