Find backlinks pointing to a website

Give your Agent a domain to find a limited list of recorded incoming links. Inspect the pages that link to it, their destination URLs and anchor text, with supplier crawl observations and separate link, page and domain scores.

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Use Toolmu’s backlink-list-dataforseo Tool to inspect incoming links for one website. Accept a website address, full URL or domain. Parse a provided URL with a URL parser, take its hostname, remove the scheme, path, query and fragment, and remove only a leading www. prefix; preserve other subdomains. This Tool searches the website, not only the page path in the URL. If the address is missing or ambiguous, ask in plain language for the website link; do not ask the user to rewrite it as a bare domain or to provide a specific page. Pass one domain string of 3–253 characters. Reuse the existing Toolmu connection, authorization and agreed budget; if connection setup is needed, follow https://toolmu.com/SKILL.md. Check the current Tool details and cost within the agreed budget before calling. Explain the returned source and destination URLs, available anchor/context, supplier crawler dates, statuses and separate backlink, source-page and source-domain scores. The Tool returns at most 20 backlink records and can repeat source pages or domains; do not deduplicate the delivered records or call them top-ranked links. Separate the returned count from the supplier database total. Preserve null, zero and false values, and describe crawl flags and model scores without claiming current reachability, safety, Google rank or SEO gains. There are no native filter, sort, date-range or continuation inputs.

Task:
Show up to 20 links on other pages that lead to [website link]. For each, show where the link appears, the page it opens, the text people click on, and when it was recorded. The list may include repeats or missing details and may not show whether those pages open now.

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Find backlinks pointing to a website

You receive

Receive up to 20 backlink records for one domain, with source and destination URLs and available link text, attributes, scores, HTTP statuses and crawler observation times. Use the records to inspect where links come from and which pages they point to. A source page or domain can appear in several records; the returned record count is separate from the supplier's reported total.

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Show up to 20 links on other pages that lead to [website link]. For each, show where the link appears, the page it opens, the text people click on, and when it was recorded. The list may include repeats or missing details and may not show whether those pages open now.

What to know

This is a limited view of DataForSEO's backlink index, with no guaranteed ordering or complete export. The Tool accepts no filter, date range or continuation input. Recorded dates, statuses and flags can predate the lookup; they do not confirm a link's current availability. Scores are supplier models, not Google positions, safety verdicts or predictions of SEO gains.

Inputs & outputs

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Input schema

Input schema
Field / Path	Type	Requirement	Meaning
Website domain`domain`	`string`	Required	Required bare domain, such as example.com, without https://, www. or a page path. Use 3–253 characters. Minimum length `3` Maximum length `253`

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{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "domain"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "domain": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 253,
      "minLength": 3,
      "description": "A bare domain such as example.com, without https:// or www."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Result schema

No fixed output contract is available. Field types reflect saved result evidence; individual responses can differ.

Result schema
Field / Path	Type	Meaning
Requested domain`backlinks.target`	`string`	The domain used for the lookup. Linked destinations may include its subdomains.
Backlink records`backlinks.items`	`array`	Returned records of links from source pages to destination URLs, up to 20. Source pages and domains can recur; available context, flags, scores and dates belong to each record.
Returned record count`backlinks.items_count`	`number`	Number of records delivered in this list, rather than distinct source pages or domains.
Reported matching total`backlinks.total_count`	`number`	Number of relevant results reported by the supplier database for the request. It is separate from the returned list and does not establish a complete web-wide count.
Source domain`backlinks.items[].domain_from`	`string`	Domain of the referring website where the supplier found the backlink.
Source page URL`backlinks.items[].url_from`	`string`	Recorded URL of the page containing the backlink.
Destination domain`backlinks.items[].domain_to`	`string`	Domain the link points to, which may be a subdomain of the requested website.
Destination URL`backlinks.items[].url_to`	`string`	Recorded address the backlink points to.
Link text`backlinks.items[].anchor`	`string \| null`	Reported anchor text when available. A null value leaves the text unknown.
Link type`backlinks.items[].item_type`	`string`	Supplier classification such as anchor, image, meta, canonical, alternate or redirect. Interpret the value returned for this record.
Link attributes`backlinks.items[].attributes`	`null \| array`	Reported source-link attributes as an array, or null when unavailable.
Text before the link`backlinks.items[].text_pre`	`null \| string`	Available source-page snippet preceding the anchor text, rather than the full page content.
Text after the link`backlinks.items[].text_post`	`null \| string`	Available source-page snippet following the anchor text.
Source page title`backlinks.items[].page_from_title`	`string \| null`	Title recorded for the referring page, or null when unavailable.
Backlink contribution score`backlinks.items[].rank`	`number`	Supplier link-graph score modeling the rank passed by this backlink to the target. The default scale is 0–1000.
Source page score`backlinks.items[].page_from_rank`	`number`	Supplier link-graph score for the referring page, distinct from the backlink contribution and source-domain scores.
Source domain score`backlinks.items[].domain_from_rank`	`number`	Supplier link-graph score for the referring domain.
Backlink spam score`backlinks.items[].backlink_spam_score`	`number`	Supplier model score for the backlink. A reported zero remains a score value; the model is not a safety or penalty verdict.
Destination page spam score`backlinks.items[].url_to_spam_score`	`number \| null`	Supplier model score for the linked destination page. It can be null when the target has not been visited.
First discovery`backlinks.items[].first_seen`	`string`	UTC time when the supplier crawler first discovered this backlink, rather than its creation or publication time.
Previous crawler visit`backlinks.items[].prev_seen`	`string \| null`	UTC time of the supplier crawler visit before the most recent one. Null leaves that previous visit unknown.
Most recent crawler visit`backlinks.items[].last_seen`	`string`	UTC time of the most recent supplier crawler visit for the backlink.
Found at the latest crawl`backlinks.items[].is_new`	`boolean`	Supplier flag indicating the backlink was found on the page at its most recent crawl, rather than necessarily created today.
Reported lost link`backlinks.items[].is_lost`	`boolean`	Supplier flag indicating removal of the backlink or the entire source page. It does not specify the cause or exact removal time.
Follow classification`backlinks.items[].dofollow`	`boolean`	Supplier classification: true for dofollow, false for nofollow.
Present at the first visit`backlinks.items[].original`	`boolean`	Whether the backlink was already present when the supplier crawler first visited the source page. This describes the first visit, not content authorship.
Recorded broken destination`backlinks.items[].is_broken`	`boolean`	Supplier flag indicating the destination responded with a 4xx or 5xx HTTP status. False does not independently verify current reachability.
Source HTTP status`backlinks.items[].page_from_status_code`	`number`	HTTP status recorded for the referring page.
Destination HTTP status`backlinks.items[].url_to_status_code`	`number \| null`	HTTP status recorded for the linked target. It can be null when the supplier has not yet visited that target.
Destination redirect address`backlinks.items[].url_to_redirect_target`	`string \| null`	Recorded address reached through the linked target's redirect, when provided.
Identical links on the source page`backlinks.items[].links_count`	`number`	Reported number of identical backlinks on the referring page, rather than the number of distinct source pages.
Link location in the page`backlinks.items[].semantic_location`	`string \| null`	Reported HTML area containing the link, such as a footer or main section, or null when unknown.

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Enter one bare domain, such as example.com, without https://, www. or a page path. The required domain string must be 3–253 characters. This Tool does not accept a particular page URL or a second domain.

Find backlinks pointing to a website

Find backlinks pointing to a website

You receive

Start with your task

What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Share a website link

What this checks

How to read each link

Questions about this tool.

You receive

Start with your task

What to know

Inputs & outputs

Input schema

Result schema

Share a website link

What this checks

How to read each link

Questions about this tool.

Should I enter a domain or a page URL?

Why can the same source page appear more than once?

Can I get all backlinks or change the selection?

Which URL is the source, and which is the destination?

Do the dates show when the link was published?

How should I compare the scores?

Do the flags confirm that a link works today?