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Backlinks Overview
Return the backlink profile summary for a root domain: authority score (ascore), total backlinks, referring domains, referring URLs, and referring IPs. Billing is per successful call, $0.30. Failed calls (4xx/5xx) are not charged. ⚠️ The response is semicolon-delimited text, not JSON — parse it as CSV-style rows. Related: get_semrush-backlinks, get_semrush-referring-domains.

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

target
string
required

Target root domain, e.g. ahrefs.com.

Response

200 - text/plain

Semicolon-delimited overview: ascore;total_backlinks;referring_domains;referring_urls;referring_ips.

The response is of type string.