How do I collect all links through the SEOMoz API?

[destdigi]

How do I collect all links through the SEOMoz API?

Yes, I know how to pull url metrics info but want to pull the inbound links only via php script w/out having to go to the OSE page to pull.

any suggestions would be great!

[CaseyKluver]

Please check out the authentication wiki page: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/29574176/SignedAuthentication

$objectURL = $domain_url;$accessID = "member-XXXXXXXXXXX";

$secretKey = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";

$expires = mktime() + 300;

// The request is good for the next 5 minutes, or 300 seconds from now.

$stringToSign = $accessID."\n".$expires;

// Get the "raw" or binary output of the hmac hash.

$binarySignature = hash_hmac('sha1', $stringToSign, $secretKey, true);

// We need to base64-encode it and then url-encode that.

$urlSafeSignature = urlencode(base64_encode($binarySignature));

$urlToFetch = "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/".urlencode($objectURL)."?AccessID=".$accessID."&Expires=".$expires."&Signature=".$urlSafeSignature."&SourceCols=26&&TargetCols=4&Scope=page_to_domain&Filter=follow&Sort=page_authority&Limit=25";

// You don't have to use fopen and can't in some scenarios. CURL is a better choice for production.

$handle = fopen($urlToFetch, "r");$links_contents = ''; while (!feof($handle)) {    $links_contents .= fread($handle, 8192);} fclose($handle);

echo $links_contents;

?>

Here is how we are pulling it in. Replace $accessID with your API code, you can sort and filter through the different link calls. Replace "Limit" with however much you want to pull in. The code will return a json response, from there you can parse the data however you want.

I hope that helps!

[destdigi]

thanks Casey,  let me have a run and let you know.

cheers!

[CaseyKluver]

No problem, feel free to send me a private message if you need help with the code.

[destdigi]

hey got it workin, I sent u a private message with a Q for a sort.

cheers!