How to get the total external links to a page and total external links to the domain using Mozscape API? I could not see an option in the bit flags

[HQP]

Hi,

I was trying to get the data for total external links to a page and total external links to the domain using Mozscape API but I can't see a bit flag which can do that. There are bit flags for external followed links to a page and external followed links to a domain but I wanted the total external links data, is there a way to do that using Mozscape API else I would end up copying the data manually from OSE which would be cumbersome and time consuming.

Your help is highly appreciated.

[GeorgeAndrews]

Hello HQP,

You should be able to find this information here: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/url-metrics.

The total juice-passing (followed) external links to a page should have a bit flag value of 32.

The total juice-passing (followed) external links to a root domain should have a bit flag value of 128.

You can also get the total juice-passing (internal or external) links to a page with a bit flag value of 256.

Hope this helps!

[HQP]

Thanks for the response George!

I was looking at the metrics page earlier. My problem is related to the total external links to a page and total external links to a subdomain. I am able to set the bit flags and get the external followed links to a page as well as to the subdomain but I want to find out if I can get the total external links (followed + nofollowed) excluding the internal links. I was able to find the external links to a page using the formula:

Total Link (uid  2048) - Juice Passing links (ujid 256) = NoFollowed Links

NoFollowed Links + External Links (ueid 32) = Total external links

But I cant do this for Total external links to the subdomain. I know its a bit complicated but I hope you got the picture

[GeorgeAndrews]

Ah ok, do you think Links to Subdomain (bit flag value:4294967296 - Total links (including internal and nofollow links) to the subdomain of the URL) minus the Subdomain External Links (bit flag value:64 - The number of juice-passing external links to the subdomain of the URL) will give you the number of NoFollowed links?

Edit: updated second bit flag

[HQP]

Thanks again George!

The formula in your response would give me external nofollowed links + internal links to the subdomain. I wanted to have Total External links (followed + nofollowed) linking to the subdomain. Though this value is visible in the comparison metrics of OSE under subdomain metrics, it does not seem to have a bit flag defined in Mozscape and I was trying to find a work around by adding/substracting the URL metrics parameters but the data seems to be insufficient to do that. Still digging in to this to find a solution else at the end I would have to manually plugin the data in excel sheets which would be a pain.

I am using JsonpathonURL to get these metrics in excel sheet.

[GeorgeAndrews]

Gotcha, looks like Mozscape doesn't provide "just" internal or nofollowed for a subdomain. Too bad. Perhaps someone from SEOmoz will notice this post and respond with whether or not they can provide that information via API. Otherwise, you might want to drop them a line at help@seomoz.org.

Good luck, looks like you are working the API to the bone!

[HQP]

Thanks for the email id! I will drop a mail.  I would update the thread as soon as I get a response. Appreciate your response :).