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Referring Domains (Backlinks)

GET /v1/domain/backlinks0.05 credits / domaincache 1440 min

The domains that link to a domain, from the Common Crawl domain-level web graph, sorted by the referrer's authority (best first), each with its 0-100 Gridlode Authority score and harmonic-centrality rank, plus the exact total number of referring domains in the graph. Domain-level only: the graph has no page URLs or anchor text (scope "domain"). Lists referrers among the 20 million best-ranked domains, up to 5,000 per domain; page with limit and offset. Billed per referring domain returned (1 credit per 20); domains that are not in the graph are free.

Query parameters

domain
string · required
Domain to look up, e.g. example.com (URLs are accepted). The web graph is domain-level: subdomains are looked up as given first, then as their registrable domain.
limit
integer
Referring domains to return, best first. Billed per domain returned (1 credit per 20).
Default: 100
offset
integer
Skip this many referring domains (paging).
Default: 0
max_age
integer
Accept a cached answer up to this many seconds old, billed at 50%.

Response data fields

    Example

    curl "https://api.gridlode.com/v1/domain/backlinks?domain=wikipedia.org&limit=50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRIDLODE_KEY"

    Try it without code on the Referring Domains (Backlinks) API page.