Backlink Checker: Referring Domains and Anchors

Check the backlink profile of any website: authority score, every backlink, referring domains, anchor texts, top linked pages, link building competitors, link gap, new & lost links over time and bulk authority / spam metrics for up to 10,000 domains. No account, no API key, no subscription. Enter a domain and click Start.

One example row from a real run, shortened:

{
  "id": "3e789dfb3468632a76638996",
  "target": "example.com",
  "report": "backlinks",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.textilwerbung-edenfeld.de/index.html",
  "sourceDomain": "www.textilwerbung-edenfeld.de",
  "targetUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "anchorText": "Gütsel Webcube CMS",
  "isDofollow": true,
  "linkType": "anchor",
  "linkScore": 70,
  "sourcePageScore": 81,
  "sourceDomainScore": 65,
  "linkSpamScore": 0,
  "isNew": false,
  "isLost": false,
  "isBroken": false,
  "firstSeen": "2024-02-12T03:09:59.000Z",
  "previousSeen": "2025-09-06T14:31:21.000Z",
  "lastSeen": "2025-11-16T18:51:04.000Z",
  "sourcePageTitle": "Textilwerbung Edenfeld Ostwestfalen Lippe (OWL), Kreis Gütersloh",
  "sourceCountry": "DE",
  "sourceTld": "de",
  "sourcePageStatusCode": 200,
  "textBefore": "2023 Textilwerbung Edenfeld,",
  "linksOnPage": 1,
  "similarLinks": 62,
  "targetStatusCode": 301,
  "isIndirect": true,
  "indirectPath": [
    {
      "type": "redirect",
      "statusCode": 302,
      "url": "https://www.guetsel.de/"
    }
  ],
  "sourceRankingKeywordsTop100": 5,
  "scoreScale": 100,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T05:08:24.620Z"
}

One row per natural entity (domain, backlink, referring domain, anchor, page, period…). The most important fields:

Every field is declared with its type in the dataset schema. The backlinks list adds 25+ more fields (linkScore, previousSeen, sourcePageTitle, sourceCountry, sourceTld, sourceIp, linkPosition, imageUrl, imageAlt, isIndirect, indirectPath, targetStatusCode, sourceRankingKeywordsTop10…). The dataset has three ready table views: Profile overview, Backlinks and Bulk domain metrics.

You pay per event, through your Apify account. Main price: $1.50 per 1,000 rows on every Apify plan, plus $0.035 per domain report. Every event and plan:

Every run is one HTTP request to the Apify API with your Apify token; the input below is the actor's own example. The synchronous endpoint returns the rows in the response for runs up to 300 seconds; for longer runs start a run and fetch its dataset.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheapapi~backlink-checker/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domains":["apify.com"],"report":"overview","maxResults":100}'

With the JavaScript client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('cheapapi/backlink-checker').call({
  "domains": [
    "apify.com"
  ],
  "report": "overview",
  "maxResults": 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Typical runs: 1,000 backlinks of one domain, authority metrics for 1,000 domains, and a domain overview of 1 domain. Prices are shown as Free plan / Gold plan (this Actor costs the same on every plan). Prices are the listed pay per event fees. This Actor also bills Apify platform usage separately (at the default 256 MB a small run typically uses about $0.001 to $0.005), shown as "+ usage" in our row.

Prices from public Apify Store listings (Platinum and Diamond prices equal Gold for all rows), checked September 2026. Free plan limits are as shown on each listing. Where we are not cheaper:

• Domain overview of a single domain: our overview costs $0.035 per domain on every plan. The two Ahrefs style scrapers return a domain summary for about $0.011 on Free (where available) and $0.004 to $0.006 on Gold, and the Semrush style scraper for $0.0275 on Gold, so for plain overviews they are cheaper. Our overview adds 34 fields with breakdowns by link type, attribute, TLD, country and platform; for authority and link counts of many domains, our bulk metrics cost $0.0012 per domain.
• Only a domain rating for many domains? The bulk domain rating checker costs $0.50 / $0.375 per 1,000 domains, less than our $1.235. Our bulk metrics add backlinks, referring domains, spam score and more per domain.
• Only a top-100 backlink sample for a few domains? The Ahrefs style scraper returns up to 100 links as one result for $0.01 / $0.005 plus its start fee, vs. $0.185 here for 100 links. The all in one scrapers also cover keywords and traffic.
• Very small link lists on a high Apify plan: our $0.035 report fee is a little above the per backlink checker's $0.03 / $0.024 per run fee, but each link costs $0.0015 here instead of $0.003 / $0.0024, so we are cheaper from 4 links (Free plan) or 13 links (Gold plan) upwards.

This Actor is cheaper as soon as you need full lists, referring domains, link gap, history or rich metrics for many domains, and you get filters, grouping and a hard budget cap on top.

• Link prospecting and outreach: link gap reports list sites that link to your competitors but not to you (missingFrom), ready for outreach.
• SEO audits: check authority, spam scores, broken backlinks, anchor text distribution and nofollow ratio of a site in one run.
• Domain due diligence: vet expired domains, acquisition targets or guest post sites with bulk authority and spam metrics for thousands of domains.
• Link monitoring: schedule the new & lost report weekly and get alerted when a site gains or loses many links.
• Competitor research: find link building competitors and their most linked pages.
• Negative SEO checks: filter backlinks by high spam score or group referring IPs/subnets to spot link networks.

• Keyword rankings and organic traffic estimates, use our Domain SEO Analyzer (ranked keywords, traffic, SEO competitors for any domain).
• Keyword research (search volume, difficulty, ideas), use our Keyword Research Tool.
• Live Google results / rank checks for a keyword, use our Google SERP Scraper.
• Visibility in AI answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews…), use our AI Search Visibility Tracker.
• On page / technical site audits (broken pages, meta tags, speed), use our SEO Site Audit.
• Page level top pages, competitors or domain link gap, these three reports work on whole domains only; page URLs given to them are converted to their domain automatically (use the backlinks, referring domains, anchors or page link gap reports for a single page).
• Moz DA or other tools' own scores, authority and spam scores here come from our own link index and are not comparable one to one with other tools' numbers.

• No link index covers the whole web; counts differ from other SEO tools and are best compared within this Actor.
• History reports start on 2019-01-30.
• Link gap reports compare 2 to 20 domains at a time; excluded domains are limited to 10.
• Custom filters accept at most 8 conditions per report (simple filters count toward the limit); custom sort accepts 3 rules.
• Top pages, competitors and link gap by domain work on whole domains; page URLs are converted to their domain (with a warning).
• Up to 50,000 rows per domain and report per run; use "Skip first rows" to continue.