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Referring Domains

DataForSEO

Find the domains linking to a site or page and compare their authority and link counts.

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Read https://scrollport.com/start. Use my existing Scrollport connection, or help me connect if needed. Help me use Referring Domains (tool ID: dataforseo.referring-domains). Ask me for the details you need, then show me the result.

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Current price
$0.0336/request
Availability
Ready to run

Tool details

About this tool

Returns a bounded list of referring domains with DataForSEO Rank, backlink counts and first-seen or lost timing.

Inputs and outputs

Input

backlinks_status_typestring · optional

Value supplied for backlinks status type.

enum: all, live, lost

include_subdomainsboolean · optional

Value supplied for include subdomains.

limitinteger · optional

Value supplied for limit.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 1000

offsetinteger · optional

Value supplied for offset.

minimum: 0 · maximum: 100000000

order_byarray · optional

Value supplied for order by.

maxItems: 3

rank_scalestring · optional

Value supplied for rank scale.

enum: one_hundred, one_thousand

targetstring · required

Domain, subdomain or absolute page URL.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 2000

Output

itemsarray

Returned items value.

items_countnumber

Returned items count value.

total_countnumber

Returned total count value.

Example request and output

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "dataforseo.referring-domains",
  "input": {
    "limit": 1,
    "target": "dataforseo.com"
  }
}

Output

{
  "items": [
    {
      "rank": 40,
      "domain": "ipip.la",
      "backlinks": 1,
      "first_seen": "2026-08-11 13:37:57 +00:00",
      "referring_domains": 1
    }
  ],
  "items_count": 1,
  "total_count": 3471
}
Errors and limitations
  • configuration_error: DataForSEO account access, funding or cost controls blocked the request.Verify and fund the server-side DataForSEO API-access credentials, then retry unchanged.
  • invalid_input: DataForSEO rejected a target, location or bounded result control.example: {"target":"dataforseo.com","limit":1}