Use case, Backlink checker

Backlink checker API for your agent. One call per domain.

Send a domain, a subdomain or a page URL. Read total backlinks and referring domains back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.

Give this to your agent
set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

The job

What the Backlink checker API gives your agent

Backlinks are votes from other sites. A backlink check counts them, shows who casts them and with what words, and flags the ones that look like spam. Your agent sends a domain and reads the profile back in one call, or drills into the full list of links.

The four endpoints here split the job. The summary gives the totals, the spam score and the count of broken links. The backlinks endpoint lists each link, with one row per link or one per referring domain. The referring-domains endpoint lists who links to you, and the anchors endpoint lists the words they use.

You give

a domain, a subdomain or a page URL

example.com

You get

  • Total backlinks
  • Referring domains
  • Anchor texts
  • Spam score
  • Broken backlinks and pages

Sample calls

The request and what comes back

Each run is one POST to /v1/runs with an endpoint id and an input. These are illustrative calls with generic values. The run's result holds the provider's own fields.

Request
{"endpointId":"dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai","input":{"target":"example.com"},"wait":30}
ResponseSample output
// POST /v1/runs, then read run.status and run.result
// result: returns total backlinks, spam score, broken backlinks, broken pages and crawled pages for a domain, subdomain or page

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names and numbers, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost.

  • One run is one domain.
  • 1 steps across 1 providers.
  • Runs on demand, whenever you ask.
Prompt: Backlink checker API
Use looot to check the backlink profile of example.com: total backlinks, referring domains, the ten most common anchor texts and the share of spammy links. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost.

Give this to your agent
Setup command
set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

Before you start

Settle these before the first run

  • Start with the summary. It is the cheapest way to see whether a deeper pull is worth the cost.
  • Use one link per domain when you want reach. The backlinks endpoint can return a single link per referring domain, which cuts the noise from sites that link a thousand times.
  • Set a limit. The backlinks list defaults to 100 and is capped at 1,000 rows per call, and you page through the rest with an offset.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Send the domain to the backlink summary endpoint for the totals, then to the backlinks endpoint for the list. Your agent returns the count, the referring domains and the anchors.

For agents
use case
Backlink checker API
run
domain
schedule
on demand
step
Check the backlinks: dataforseo
setup
https://looot.ai/skill.md
llms.txt
https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated
2026-10-04
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Try Backlink checker with your own agent.

Start your workspace, top up, and paste the prompt into the agent you already use.

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