Number of available links limited?

[drkameleon]

OK, I've been making use of the free LinkScape API (on behalf of a client of mine) and trying to get links (and info on those links) to a specific domain/page/etc.

NOTE : I've been using it without any issue in the past, however we are currently facing some weird issues.

Let's take this simple query as an example :

http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/wikipedia.org?SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&Sort=page_authority&Scope=page_to_domain

What this one supposedly does is to get links to "wikipedia.org", right?

I'm reading :

The Page_to_* scopes will by default

return 25 links per source domain

if no limit is specified, so you can see domain diversity.

Due to space limitations in our API,

a general link query for a given page

will return at most 25 pages for every unique domain

linking to that page.

And I'm saying OK, that's fine.

The thing is that (instead of the 1000 links I had been getting before), I'm now getting just 25 links. NOT per... "source domain"... but obviously per "target domain" (= wikipedia.org) - or am I missing something? (well, probably wikipedia suddenly has just about 25 links pointed to it... makes sense! )

Please, let me know what's going on with the above, simply because getting just 25 links is close to worthless...

Thanks a lot, in advance!

[Nick_Sayers]

Hi there,  We don't typically provide QA support for the Free Mozscape API.

I encourage you to post your question to our Dev Discussion forum: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293196-developer-discussion-group. Our engineering community monitors that and you will probably get a response within 48 hours.

We prefer to do any API support through our forum because that way other people in the community can benefit from the discussion. Making the support scalable allows us to keep offering the API as a free service. I hope you understand.

However, if you would like increased rate limits (10 r/s), additional metrics and email support, we suggest you upgrade to the paid version of our Mozscape API. If you'd like to upgrade, send a note to andrew@seomoz.org or just respond to this email and we'll get your account set up.

Looking forward to seeing your post in the Dev Discussion group!

Best,

Nick