Ahrefs

Ahrefs Site Explorer API

Fetch data from Site Explorer reports

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Digital Marketing Management BC-400.60

Operations 28

GET /site-explorer/domain-rating Domain rating #
GET /site-explorer/metrics Metrics #
GET /site-explorer/ai-responses-count AI Responses Count #
GET /site-explorer/refdomains-history Refdomains history #
GET /site-explorer/domain-rating-history Domain Rating history #
GET /site-explorer/url-rating-history URL Rating history #
GET /site-explorer/pages-history Pages history #
GET /site-explorer/metrics-history Metrics history #
GET /site-explorer/keywords-history Keywords history #
GET /site-explorer/metrics-by-country Metrics by country #
GET /site-explorer/pages-by-traffic Pages by traffic #
GET /site-explorer/refdomains Refdomains #
GET /site-explorer/anchors Anchors #
GET /site-explorer/linkeddomains Linked Domains #
GET /site-explorer/linked-anchors-external Outgoing external anchors #
GET /site-explorer/linked-anchors-internal Outgoing internal anchors #
GET /site-explorer/organic-keywords Organic keywords #
GET /site-explorer/organic-competitors Organic competitors #
GET /site-explorer/top-pages Top pages #
GET /site-explorer/paid-pages Paid pages #
GET /site-explorer/total-search-volume-history Total search volume history #
GET /site-explorer/crawled-pages Crawled pages #

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OpenAPI Specification

ahrefs-site-explorer-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ahrefs Site 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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