backlinks_new_lost_counters

backlinks_new_lost_counters - Ahrefs API

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Documentation - backlinks_new_lost_counters

Contains new and lost backlink totals.

Each request to backlinks_new_lost_counters costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.

• counts

Column	Type	Where	Having	Description
date	date	+	+	Date the backlink was tagged as New or Lost
type	string	+	−	Indicates whether the backlink is New or Lost.
ahrefs_rank	int	+	−	URL Rating of the referring page.
domain_rating	int	+	−	Domain Rating of the referring domain.
url_from	string	+	−	URL of the page where the backlink is found
url_to	string	+	+	URL of the page the backlink is pointing to.
links_internal	int	+	−	Number of internal links found in the referring page.
links_external	int	+	−	Number of external links found in the referring page.
encoding	string	+	−	Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1).
http_code	int	+	−	HTTP code that was last returned for the referring page.
title	string	+	−	Title of the referring page.
origin	string	+	−	Either "fresh", "drop", or "recrawl".
first_seen	date	+	−	Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
last_visited	date	+	−	Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
prev_visited	date	+	−	Second to most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink.
original	boolean	+	−	Indicates whether the backlink was present on the referring page when the Ahrefs crawler first visited it.
link_type	string	+	−	Either "href", "redirect", "frame", "form", "canonical", "rss", or "alternate".
redirect	int	+	−	For redirected links, the Redirect Code (3XX), zero otherwise.
nofollow	boolean	+	−	Indicates whether the backlink is NoFollow.
alt	string	+	−	Alternative text of the image backlink, if exists.
anchor	string	+	−	Anchor text of the backlink.
text_pre	string	+	−	Snippet before the anchor text.
text_post	string	+	−	Snippet after the anchor text.
new	int	−	+	Total number of new backlinks found to this url.
lost	int	−	+	Total number of backlinks removed to this url.
new_total	int	−	+	Total number of new backlinks found to this url when ignoring where filter.
lost_total	int	−	+	Total number of backlinks removed to this url when ignoring where filter.

Examples

xml json

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=backlinks_new_lost_counters&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=3&order_by=date%3Adesc&having=new%3E20&output=json

Response

{
  "counts":[
    {
      "date":"2013-11-01",
      "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/bitcoin.org",
      "new":37,
      "lost":0,
      "new_total":37,
      "lost_total":0
    },
    {
      "date":"2013-10-27",
      "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/news/ahrefs-close-keywords-analysis",
      "new":21,
      "lost":0,
      "new_total":21,
      "lost_total":0
    },
    {
      "date":"2013-10-27",
      "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/",
      "new":66,
      "lost":0,
      "new_total":66,
      "lost_total":0
    }
  ]
}