broken_links - Ahrefs API

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Documentation - broken_links

Contains the broken links and details of the referring pages, such as anchor and page title.

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

• links

Column	Type	Where	Having	Description
url_from	string	+	+	URL of the page where the backlink is found.
url_to	string	+	+	URL of the page the backlink is pointing to.
ahrefs_rank	int	+	+	URL Rating of the referring page.
domain_to_rating	int	−	+	Domain Rating for destination domain.
ip_from	string	+	+	IP address of the referring page.
links_internal	int	+	+	Number of internal links found in the referring page.
links_external	int	+	+	Number of external links found in the referring page.
page_size	int	+	+	Size of the referring page, in bytes.
encoding	string	+	+	Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1).
title	string	+	+	Title of the referring page.
language	string	+	+	Language of the referring page (ISO 639-1).
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 the 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.
broken_at	date	+	+	The date when the Ahrefs crawler thinks the link became broken.
http_code	int	+	+	The HTTP code for the Link URL.
error	string	+	+	The string indicating the nature of error (currently only "dns").
domain_to_ahrefs_top	int	−	+	Ahrefs rank of the external domain.
url_from_first_seen	date	+	+	Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the referring page with backlink.

Examples

xml json

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=broken_links&target=ahrefs.com&mode=subdomains&limit=2&order_by=broken_at%3Adesc&output=xml

Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AhrefsApiResponse>
  <links>
    <link>
      <url_from>
        https://blog.ahrefs.com/google-still-pushes-nofollow-failed-anti-comment-spam-instrument/
      </url_from>
      <ahrefs_rank>
        13
      </ahrefs_rank>
      <domain_to_rating>
        0
      </domain_to_rating>
      <ip_from>
        208.43.234.10
      </ip_from>
      <links_internal>
        44
      </links_internal>
      <links_external>
        18
      </links_external>
      <page_size>
        15308
      </page_size>
      <encoding>
        utf8
      </encoding>
      <title>
        Why Google Still Pushes nofollow the Failed Anti-Comment Spam Instrument - Ahrefs Blog
      </title>
      <language>
        en
      </language>
      <url_to>
        http://cranberry.com/blog/post/nofollow-press-releases
      </url_to>
      <first_seen>
        2015-02-23T11:14:01Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        2015-03-17T23:56:18Z
      </last_visited>
      <prev_visited>
        2015-02-23T11:14:01Z
      </prev_visited>
      <original>
        true
      </original>
      <redirect>
        0
      </redirect>
      <alt>
        
      </alt>
      <anchor>
        press releases
      </anchor>
      <text_pre>
        2.
      </text_pre>
      <text_post>
        
      </text_post>
      <link_type>
        href
      </link_type>
      <nofollow>
        false
      </nofollow>
      <broken_at>
        2015-04-26T02:24:03Z
      </broken_at>
      <http_code>
        404
      </http_code>
      <error>
        
      </error>
      <domain_to_ahrefs_top>
        11
      </domain_to_ahrefs_top>
      <url_from_first_seen>
        2013-11-07T06:58:50Z
      </url_from_first_seen>
    </link>
    <link>
      <url_from>
        https://blog.ahrefs.com/weekly-seo-roundup-on-ahrefs-blog-week-of-6-mar-2015/
      </url_from>
      <ahrefs_rank>
        18
      </ahrefs_rank>
      <domain_to_rating>
        0
      </domain_to_rating>
      <ip_from>
        208.43.234.10
      </ip_from>
      <links_internal>
        46
      </links_internal>
      <links_external>
        31
      </links_external>
      <page_size>
        16036
      </page_size>
      <encoding>
        utf8
      </encoding>
      <title>
        Weekly SEO Roundup on Ahrefs Blog: Week of 6 Mar 2015 - Ahrefs Blog
      </title>
      <language>
        en
      </language>
      <url_to>
        http://www.stateofdigital.com/biggest-social-media-updates-2015/
      </url_to>
      <first_seen>
        2015-03-23T00:53:47Z
      </first_seen>
      <last_visited>
        2015-03-27T13:52:36Z
      </last_visited>
      <prev_visited>
        2015-03-23T00:53:47Z
      </prev_visited>
      <original>
        true
      </original>
      <redirect>
        0
      </redirect>
      <alt>
        
      </alt>
      <anchor>
        Biggest Social Media Updates of 2015 To Date
      </anchor>
      <text_pre>
        
      </text_pre>
      <text_post>
        
      </text_post>
      <link_type>
        href
      </link_type>
      <nofollow>
        false
      </nofollow>
      <broken_at>
        2015-04-25T15:47:00Z
      </broken_at>
      <http_code>
        404
      </http_code>
      <error>
        
      </error>
      <domain_to_ahrefs_top>
        12
      </domain_to_ahrefs_top>
      <url_from_first_seen>
        2013-11-07T06:58:50Z
      </url_from_first_seen>
    </link>
  </links>
</AhrefsApiResponse>

Request

https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=broken_links&target=ahrefs.com&mode=subdomains&limit=2&order_by=broken_at%3Adesc&output=json

Response

{
  "links": [
    {
      "url_from":"https://blog.ahrefs.com/google-still-pushes-nofollow-failed-anti-comment-spam-instrument/",
      "ahrefs_rank":13,
      "domain_to_rating":0,
      "ip_from":"208.43.234.10",
      "links_internal":44,
      "links_external":18,
      "page_size":15308,
      "encoding":"utf8",
      "title":"Why Google Still Pushes nofollow the Failed Anti-Comment Spam Instrument - Ahrefs Blog",
      "language":"en",
      "url_to":"http://cranberry.com/blog/post/nofollow-press-releases",
      "first_seen":"2015-02-23T11:14:01Z",
      "last_visited":"2015-03-17T23:56:18Z",
      "prev_visited":"2015-02-23T11:14:01Z",
      "original":true,
      "redirect":0,
      "alt":"",
      "anchor":"press releases",
      "text_pre":"2.",
      "text_post":"",
      "link_type":"href",
      "nofollow":false,
      "broken_at":"2015-04-26T02:24:03Z",
      "http_code":404,
      "error":"",
      "domain_to_ahrefs_top":11,
      "url_from_first_seen": "2013-11-07T06:58:50Z"
    },
    {
      "url_from":"https://blog.ahrefs.com/weekly-seo-roundup-on-ahrefs-blog-week-of-6-mar-2015/",
      "ahrefs_rank":18,
      "domain_to_rating":0,
      "ip_from":"208.43.234.10",
      "links_internal":46,
      "links_external":31,
      "page_size":16036,
      "encoding":"utf8",
      "title":"Weekly SEO Roundup on Ahrefs Blog: Week of 6 Mar 2015 - Ahrefs Blog",
      "language":"en",
      "url_to":"http://www.stateofdigital.com/biggest-social-media-updates-2015/",
      "first_seen":"2015-03-23T00:53:47Z",
      "last_visited":"2015-03-27T13:52:36Z",
      "prev_visited":"2015-03-23T00:53:47Z",
      "original":true,
      "redirect":0,
      "alt":"",
      "anchor":"Biggest Social Media Updates of 2015 To Date",
      "text_pre":"",
      "text_post":"",
      "link_type":"href",
      "nofollow":false,
      "broken_at":"2015-04-25T15:47:00Z",
      "http_code":404,
      "error":"",
      "domain_to_ahrefs_top":12,
      "url_from_first_seen": "2013-11-07T06:58:50Z"
    }
  ]
}