How to get backlinks with the API

[silvacarl]

got it!  really really appreciate your help!

[silvacarl]

see below curl bash examples for Moz API:

#!/bin/bash

Usage: ./moz-test.sh callmydoc.com or ./moz-test.sh solimancare.schedulemypatient.com

Note: backlinks for subdomains does not return results yet.

access_id="mozscape-xx"
secret_key="xx"

searchurl=$1
echo "Checking backlinks for ["$searchurl"]"
endpoint="lsapi.seomoz.com"

timenow=$(date +%s)
timeend=$(( ${timenow} + (606024) ))
stringToSign=${access_id}$'\n'${timeend}
signature=$(echo -n "${stringToSign}" | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac "${secret_key}" -binary | base64)
signature=$(echo ${signature} | sed 's/+/%2B/g;s/=/%3D/g')

start=0
end=300
echo "Checking for practices from $start to $end"
rm found_urls.txt
touch found_urls.txt
for (( i=$start; i<$end; i++ )); do
numberofdots=$(echo $searchurl | grep -o "." | wc -l)
echo "number of dots ["$numberofdots"]"
if [ "$numberofdots" == "1" ]; then
url="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/$searchurl?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}&Scope=page_to_domain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=25"

url2="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/$searchurl?Cols=4&AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}"
echo "Calling Moz url-metrics API with ["$url2"]"
curl $url
echo
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."
echo
else
url="http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/$searchurl?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}&Scope=page_to_subdomain&Filter=external&Sort=page_authority&SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&LinkCols=4&Limit=25"
fi
echo "Calling Moz API with ["$url"]"
curl $url > backlink-results.json
echo
jq -r '.[].uu' < backlink-results.json >> found_urls.txt
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."
echo

sleep a random amount between 1 and 30 seconds to not crush moz API

sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 50 ) + 1 ]s
(( i + 50 ))
done

[DavidLee]

Anytime!

[silvacarl]

Can you think of any other method for doing the subdomain backlink search?  I posted the code above if you want to play with it.

Or for that matter anyone can try it out.

[DavidLee]

I'm afraid not for bash curls. We do share example code for calling our API using other languages at https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples