Ahrefs

Ahrefs Keywords Explorer API

Fetch data from Keywords Explorer reports

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Digital Marketing Management BC-400.60

Operations 6

GET /keywords-explorer/overview Overview #
GET /keywords-explorer/volume-history Volume history #
GET /keywords-explorer/volume-by-country Volume by country #
GET /keywords-explorer/matching-terms Matching terms #
GET /keywords-explorer/related-terms Related terms #
GET /keywords-explorer/search-suggestions Search suggestions #

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OpenAPI Specification

ahrefs-keywords-explorer-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ahrefs Keywords Explorer API
  description: Ahrefs API v3 gives programmatic access to Ahrefs' SEO, marketing, and AI-search data — backlinks, organic and paid traffic, keywords, SERPs, rank tracking, site audits, brand/AI-search visibility, web and social analytics, and account management. This is the full spec for every tool; each tool also has its own spec under /reference/.
  termsOfService: https://ahrefs.com/terms
  contact:
    name: Ahrefs
    url: https://ahrefs.com/
    email: support@ahrefs.com
  version: 3.0.0
servers:
- url: https://api.ahrefs.com/v3
  description: Ahrefs API v3
security:
- http:
  - read
tags:


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