SE Ranking

aid: se-ranking
name: SE Ranking
description: SE Ranking is an SEO platform providing a REST API for keyword rank tracking, competitor analysis, backlink monitoring,
  on-page auditing, AI search visibility, and generating white-label SEO reports. The platform offers two API layers — a Data
  API with pay-as-you-go credits for SEO data retrieval and a Project API for managing SEO workflows — covering 5.4B keywords,
  2.2B domain profiles, and 188+ regions.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/se-ranking.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/se-ranking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- SEO
- Keyword Research
- Rank Tracking
- Backlinks
- Competitor Analysis
- Website Audit
- AI Search
- GEO
- Digital Marketing
apis:
- aid: se-ranking:data-api
  name: SE Ranking Data API
  description: REST API providing access to SE Ranking's SEO datasets including keyword research, backlink analysis, domain
    analysis, SERP data, website audits, and AI search visibility tracking. Uses a credit-based billing model with per-request
    and per-record charges.
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Keyword Research
  - Backlinks
  - Domain Analysis
  - SERP
  - Website Audit
  - AI Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seranking.com/api/data/getting-started/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  - type: Postman
    url: https://www.postman.com/serankingdev/se-ranking-developers/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://seranking.com/api/rate-limits/
  - type: Credits
    url: https://seranking.com/api/api-credits-system/
  contact:
  - FN: SE Ranking Support
    url: https://seranking.com/contact.html
- aid: se-ranking:project-api
  name: SE Ranking Project API
  description: REST API for creating and managing SEO tracking projects programmatically, including keyword monitoring, competitor
    tracking, website audits, backlink management, and account administration. Consumes limits tied to the user's subscription
    plan rather than separate API credits.
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/project/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Project Management
  - Rank Tracking
  - Competitor Analysis
  - Website Audit
  - Backlinks
  - Account Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seranking.com/api/project/getting-started/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://seranking.com/api/project/
  - type: Postman
    url: https://www.postman.com/serankingdev/se-ranking-developers/overview
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://seranking.com/api/rate-limits/
  contact:
  - FN: SE Ranking Support
    url: https://seranking.com/contact.html
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-account-system-api
  name: SE Ranking Account & system API
  description: "This collection contains endpoints for retrieving information about your account status, subscription details,\
    \ and current credit and API unit balances. Use these requests to monitor your usage and plan details programmatically.\n\
    \n### Endpoints\n\n- **Get Subscription Info**: Returns detailed information about your current API subscription plan,\
    \ including its status (e.g., active, expired), validity dates, and the total and remaining API units available.\n   \
    \ \n- **Get Credit Balance**: Returns the current account-wide credit balance, showing the total limit and the amount\
    \ of credits that have been used."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Account & system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-account-system-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-ai-search-api
  name: SE Ranking AI search API
  description: "This collection of endpoints allows you to analyze a domain or brand's visibility and performance within various\
    \ Large Language Model (LLM) results, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Use these tools to track your presence\
    \ in AI-generated answers, discover the prompts that feature your brand or domain, and understand your overall AI search\
    \ footprint.\n\n### Overview & Discovery\n\n- **Overview**: Get a high-level summary of a domain's performance and historical\
    \ trends within a specific LLM, including metrics like link presence, average position, and AI-driven traffic.\n    \n\
    - **Discover Brand by URL**: A utility endpoint to identify the primary brand name associated with a target domain, useful\
    \ for subsequent brand-based queries.\n    \n\n### Prompt Analysis\n\n- **Get Prompts by Target**: Retrieve a list of\
    \ all prompts where a specific domain, subdomain, or URL is featured as a link or mention in an LLM's answer.\n    \n\
    - **Get Prompts by Brand**: Find all prompts where a specific brand name is mentioned in an LLM's answer, allowing you\
    \ to track brand visibility and context."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - AI search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-ai-search-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-backlinks-api
  name: SE Ranking backlinks API
  description: "# Backlinks API\n\nThis collection of requests allows you to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the backlink\
    \ profile for any given target, whether it's a root domain, a specific host (subdomain), or a particular URL.\n\nYou can\
    \ use these endpoints to retrieve high-level statistics, fetch detailed backlink lists, analyze historical trends, and\
    \ check authority scores.\n\n### Summary & Core Metrics\n\nUse these endpoints to get a quick overview of a target's backlink\
    \ profile. These requests support batching for up to 100 targets.\n\n- **`summary`**: Returns extended statistics, including\
    \ the number of referring domains, IPs, top anchors, TLDs, and more.\n    \n- **`metrics`**: Retrieves a set of key metrics,\
    \ such as the total number of backlinks, referring domains, and dofollow/nofollow link counts.\n    \n- **`count`**: Provides\
    \ a simple count of the total number of live backlinks for a target.\n    \n\n### Detailed Backlink Retrieval\n\nUse these\
    \ endpoints to get lists of the actual backlinks pointing to a target.\n\n- **`all`**: Fetches a detailed list of backlinks\
    \ with powerful filtering and sorting options. This is ideal for getting the \"top\" backlinks based on criteria like\
    \ InLink Rank.\n    \n- **`raw`**: Retrieves a complete, unfiltered list of all backlinks using efficient cursor-based\
    \ pagination. This is best for fetching an entire dataset in batches.\n    \n- **`export`**: Exports all backlinks for\
    \ a target into a downloadable `.csv.gz` file. This process is asynchronous and designed for very large-scale data retrieval.\n\
    \    \n\n### Historical Data & Trends\n\nTrack changes in a backlink profile over time.\n\n- **`history`**: Get a list\
    \ of new and lost backlinks within a specified date range.\n    \n- **`history/count`**: Returns the number of new or\
    \ lost backlinks for each day in a given period.\n    \n- **`history/cumulative`**: Provides the total number of live\
    \ backlinks for each day in a given period.\n    \n\n### Analyze Specific Backlink Aspects\n\nDive deeper into specific\
    \ components of the backlink profile.\n\n- **`anchors`**: Returns information about the anchor texts used in links pointing\
    \ to a target.\n    \n- **`refdomains`**: Provides details on the unique referring domains, including their authority\
    \ and the number of links from each.\n    \n- **`referring-ips`** **&** **`subnets`**: Analyzes the network distribution\
    \ of backlinks by IP address and C-class subnets.\n    \n- **`indexed-pages`**: Lists the pages on the target site that\
    \ have received one or more backlinks.\n    \n\n### Authority Scores\n\nCheck the calculated authority of a target based\
    \ on its backlink profile.\n\n- **`authority`**: Retrieves both the InLink Rank (Page Authority) and Domain InLink Rank\
    \ (Domain Authority).\n    \n- **`authority/domain`**: Focuses specifically on Domain Authority, including its distribution\
    \ and historical values.\n    \n- **`authority/page`**: Focuses specifically on Page Authority and its historical values."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - backlinks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-backlinks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-domain-analysis-api
  name: SE Ranking Domain Analysis API
  description: "This collection of endpoints allows you to perform in-depth competitive analysis on any domain. Use these\
    \ requests to uncover keyword strategies, traffic trends, and competitor performance in both organic and paid search.\n\
    \n### Performance Overviews\n\nGet high-level statistics about a domain's search performance.\n\n- **Regional database**:\
    \ Get detailed organic and paid stats for a domain within a single, selected regional database.\n    \n- **Worldwide aggregate**:\
    \ Aggregate a domain's global search performance metrics for the current month.\n    \n- **History trends**: Track historical\
    \ trends for keywords, traffic, and cost for organic or paid search within a specific region.\n    \n\n### Keyword Analysis\n\
    \nDive deep into the specific keywords a domain ranks for.\n\n- **Domain keywords**: Fetch a filterable and sortable list\
    \ of all organic or paid keywords for a domain.\n    \n- **Domain keywords comparison**: Compare two domains to find common\
    \ keywords (overlap) or identify keyword gaps.\n    \n\n### Competitor & Ad Analysis\n\nAnalyze the competitive landscape\
    \ and paid advertising strategies.\n\n- **Competitors**: Discover a domain's top organic or paid competitors and see the\
    \ number of keywords you have in common.\n    \n- **Paid ads**: Analyze paid ads either by keyword (to see who is bidding)\
    \ or by domain (to see what a specific domain is bidding on)."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Domain Analysis
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-domain-analysis-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-keyword-research-api
  name: SE Ranking Keyword Research API
  description: "This collection of endpoints is designed for comprehensive keyword analysis and discovery. Use these requests\
    \ to retrieve performance metrics for large lists of keywords or to generate new keyword ideas based on a seed term.\n\
    \nThis folder is divided into two main categories:\n\n### Bulk Keyword Metrics\n\n- **Export Keywords Metrics**: Submit\
    \ a list of up to 5,000 keywords to get detailed data points for each, including search volume, CPC, competition score,\
    \ keyword difficulty, and historical search volume trends. This is ideal for bulk analysis and data enrichment.\n    \n\
    \n### Keyword Discovery\n\nUse these endpoints to expand your keyword lists and uncover new ranking opportunities.\n\n\
    - **Get Similar Keywords**: Find keywords that are semantically similar to your seed keyword, including synonyms and close\
    \ variations.\n    \n- **Get Related Keywords**: Discover keywords that are topically related, based on having a high\
    \ number of overlapping URLs in their search results.\n    \n- **Get Question Keywords**: Generate a list of keywords\
    \ phrased as common user questions, perfect for content marketing and FAQ creation.\n    \n- **Get Longtail Keywords**:\
    \ Find longer, more specific keyword phrases that often have lower competition and higher conversion rates."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Keyword Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-keyword-research-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-serp-results-classic-api
  name: SE Ranking SERP Results > classic API
  description: The SERP Results > classic API from SE Ranking — 4 operation(s) for serp results > classic.
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - SERP Results > classic
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-serp-results-classic-api-openapi.yml
- aid: se-ranking:se-ranking-website-audit-api
  name: SE Ranking Website Audit API
  description: "This collection of endpoints provides a comprehensive suite of tools to programmatically manage the full lifecycle\
    \ of your technical SEO audits. These requests allow you to launch new crawls, monitor their progress in real-time, and\
    \ retrieve detailed reports and page-level data for in-depth analysis.\n\n**Note on Costs:** Audits are billed on a per-page\
    \ basis.\n\n- **Standard Audits:** 2 credits per crawled page.\n    \n- **Advanced Audits (with JavaScript rendering):**\
    \ 20 credits per crawled page.\n    \n\n### 1\\. Create & Manage Audits\n\nUse these endpoints to start new crawls, re-run\
    \ previous ones, or manage your list of audits.\n\n- **Create Audits**: Launch a new **Standard** (HTML crawl) or **Advanced**\
    \ (JavaScript rendering) audit with highly customizable settings.\n    \n- **List Audits**: Retrieve a paginated list\
    \ of all audits associated with your account.\n    \n- **Update Audit Title**: Change the display title of an existing\
    \ audit report.\n    \n- **Delete Audit**: Permanently remove an audit and all of its associated data.\n    \n- **Recheck\
    \ Audit**: Initiate a new crawl for a completed audit using its original settings.\n    \n\n### 2\\. Monitor & Retrieve\
    \ Data\n\nOnce an audit is running or complete, use these endpoints to check its progress and pull detailed results.\n\
    \n- **Get Audit Status**: Check the real-time progress of an ongoing audit.\n    \n- **Get Audit Report**: Fetch the full,\
    \ high-level report for a completed audit, including the overall health score and a summary of issues.\n    \n- **Get\
    \ Audit History**: Retrieve a historical snapshot of a specific audit run from a particular date.\n    \n- **Get All Crawled\
    \ Pages**: Return a complete, paginated list of every URL discovered during an audit.\n    \n- **Get Audit Pages by Issue**:\
    \ Get a list of all URLs affected by a single, specific issue.\n    \n- **Get All Issues for a Specific URL**: Retrieve\
    \ all errors, warnings, and notices found on a single page.\n    \n- **Get All Found Links**: Fetch a complete list of\
    \ every internal and external link discovered across the entire site during the audit."
  humanURL: https://seranking.com/api/data/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.seranking.com
  tags:
  - Website Audit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/se-ranking-website-audit-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/se-ranking-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/se-ranking-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/se-ranking-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://seranking.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://seranking.com/api.html
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/seranking
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/se-ranking
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/SERanking
- type: Blog
  url: https://seranking.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://seranking.com/api-pricing.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.seranking.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/se-ranking-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/se-ranking-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/se-ranking-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com