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Retrieve subscription limits and usage

Check your Ahrefs account's API usage and remaining quota limits to monitor consumption and plan for upgrades. This helps you track how much of your subscription you've used and when you might need to adjust your plan.

Backlinks stats retrieval

Get comprehensive backlink statistics for any website including total backlinks, referring domains, and domain authority metrics to understand SEO strength and competitive positioning.

Explore linked domains of a site

Discover all external domains that a website links to, helping you understand their content partnerships and linking strategy. This reveals where your competitors or industry peers are directing traffic and which authoritative sites they trust.

Fetch all backlinks

Retrieve all backlinks pointing to a website to analyze your link profile and discover new link-building opportunities. This helps you understand your site's SEO strength and identify where your traffic and authority are coming from.

Fetch broken backlinks data

Identifies broken backlinks pointing to your website so you can assess link quality and fix or reclaim lost referral traffic. This helps maintain a healthy link profile and discover SEO improvement opportunities.

Fetch site explorer referring domains

Identifies all domains linking to your website so you can understand your backlink profile and discover link-building opportunities. This helps you assess your site's authority and find partners for collaboration.

Get site explorer linked anchors external

Analyze the anchor text from external backlinks pointing to your website to understand how other sites are referencing you and identify SEO opportunities. This helps you assess your website's topical relevance and discover potential link-building strategies.

Linked anchors explorer

Discovers the internal anchor text and link patterns used across your website to understand how pages are connected and referenced internally. This helps optimize your site's navigation structure and internal linking strategy for better SEO and user experience.

List best by external links

Identifies your website's most linked-to pages by analyzing external backlinks pointing to them. Use this to understand which of your content pieces are most authoritative and valuable in the eyes of search engines and other websites.

Retrieve anchor data

Analyzes the anchor text used by websites linking to your domain, showing you exactly how other sites are referring to you and helping identify link-building opportunities.

Retrieve site explorer referring domains history

Track how a website's backlink profile has grown or changed over time by retrieving historical data on referring domains. This helps you understand your SEO progress and identify patterns in how your site builds authority.

Fetch competitors overview

Analyze how your website ranks against competitors across shared keywords, showing traffic share and SERP visibility to identify competitive gaps in organic search performance.

Retrieve organic competitors

Identifies which websites are competing with your domain for the same organic search rankings, ranked by their keyword overlap and search performance. Use this to understand your competitive landscape and find opportunities to improve your search visibility.

Retrieve crawler ip ranges

Get the IP address ranges used by Ahrefs' web crawler so you can identify and manage its traffic on your website. This helps you whitelist legitimate crawler requests and analyze bot activity in your server logs.

Retrieve public crawler ips

Get the current list of IP addresses used by Ahrefs' web crawler so you can verify legitimate crawl requests and manage server access rules.

Domain rating for site explorer

Quickly check the domain authority and SEO strength of any website using Ahrefs' Domain Rating metric, which measures backlink profile quality on a 0-100 scale.

Domain rating history

Track how a domain's search authority has changed over time by retrieving historical Domain Rating data from Ahrefs. This helps you measure the effectiveness of your SEO efforts and understand long-term trends in domain strength.

Explore keywords overview

Get a quick summary of keyword metrics like search volume and difficulty to understand keyword performance opportunities in your niche. This helps you identify which keywords are worth targeting for your content and SEO strategy.

Retrieve organic keywords

Retrieves the organic keywords that drive traffic to a website, including their rankings, search volume, and estimated traffic potential. Use this to understand what searches bring visitors to your site and identify new optimization opportunities.

Explore keyword volume by country

Discover search volume data for keywords across specific countries to identify which markets have the highest demand for your products or services. This helps you prioritize which geographic regions to target with your content and marketing campaigns.

Explore matching terms for keywords

Discover keyword variations and related search terms that match your target keywords, complete with search volume and difficulty metrics to inform your content strategy. Use this to expand your keyword list and find untapped opportunities across different markets.

Fetch total search volume history

Track how search interest for specific keywords has changed over time to understand trends and plan content strategy. This helps you identify seasonal patterns and validate keyword opportunities before investing time in content creation.

Retrieve related terms

Discover semantically related keywords and search terms that are connected to your target keyword, helping you uncover new content opportunities and expand your SEO strategy. This reveals what similar topics your potential customers are actually searching for.

Retrieve site explorer keywords history

Track how a website's keyword rankings and search performance have changed over time, helping you understand which SEO efforts are working and identify seasonal trends in your traffic.

Retrieve volume history

Retrieves historical search volume trends for a keyword to help you understand how search interest has changed over time. Use this to identify seasonal patterns and validate whether a keyword is worth targeting in your content strategy.

Search suggestions explorer

Discover related keywords and search variations for your target keywords using Ahrefs' real search data. This helps you identify content opportunities and understand what your potential customers are actually searching for.

Retrieve outlinks stats

Analyze a website's outgoing links and linking strategy to understand how it connects to other domains. Use this to benchmark competitors, identify link-building opportunities, and evaluate SEO health.

Retrieve paid pages data

Uncover the paid search strategies of any website by viewing their active PPC ads, targeted keywords, and ad copy. This helps you identify high-performing keywords and competitive opportunities in your market.

Fetch rank tracker overview

Get a comprehensive overview of your website's keyword rankings and SEO performance across search engines and countries. This gives you a quick snapshot of your overall ranking health and progress without needing to dig into individual keyword details.

Get serp overview

Retrieves comprehensive search engine results data for keywords, showing search volume, competition levels, and performance metrics to help you understand what's ranking and why. This helps you identify content opportunities and benchmark against competitors in your market.

Retrieve site explorer metrics

Get detailed SEO metrics for any website including backlinks, organic keywords, and domain authority to understand search performance and competitive positioning.

Retrieve top pages from site explorer

Discover the highest-performing pages on any website and understand what makes them successful based on organic traffic and SEO metrics. This helps you identify content gaps and competitive opportunities to improve your own site's visibility.

Get site explorer country metrics

Retrieves country-specific SEO performance metrics for any website, showing organic traffic, keyword rankings, and backlink data by geographic region. This helps you understand where your site is strongest internationally and identify new markets for expansion.

Retrieve best by internal links

Identifies your site's highest-performing internal links based on SEO metrics, helping you understand which pages are driving the most authority and traffic through your internal linking structure.

Retrieve site explorer metrics history

Track how your website's SEO performance has changed over time by viewing historical metrics like backlinks, organic traffic, and keyword rankings. Use this to understand long-term trends, spot growth opportunities, and compare your progress against competitors.

Retrieve site explorer pages history

Track how your website's SEO performance has changed over time by viewing historical backlink and organic traffic data from Ahrefs. This helps you understand the impact of your SEO efforts and identify trends in your search visibility.

Get site audit projects

Retrieves all Site Audit projects from your Ahrefs account so you can view which websites you're monitoring and their current audit status.

Pages by traffic overview

Identifies your website's top-performing pages ranked by estimated organic search traffic, helping you understand which content attracts the most visitors from search engines. Use this to discover your strongest-performing content and identify optimization opportunities.

Batch Url Analysis

Analyze SEO metrics for up to 100 URLs or domains simultaneously to get backlinks, traffic potential, and ranking data in one request. This saves time when researching multiple competitors or website pages at once.

Get url rating history

Track how a URL's SEO strength has evolved over time by retrieving its historical rating data. Use this to measure the effectiveness of your SEO improvements and monitor how your content performs compared to competitors.