Backlinks API
Deprecated
Pricing
Pay per event
Backlinks API
Deprecated
Find backlinks overview and list of backlinks to given url with complete details about links
4.5 (2)
Pricing
Pay per event
18
Monthly users
14
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
46 days
Last modified
a month ago
You can access the Backlinks API programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=curious_coder/backlinks-api"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Backlinks API via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Backlinks API within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Backlinks API Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "urls": [
8 "https://apify.com",
9 "https://hubspot.com",
10 "https://ahrefs.com"
11 ]
12},
13 "name": "curious_coder/backlinks-api"
14 }
15}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Backlinks API
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "curious_coder/backlinks-api"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per eventThis Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Cost per actor start per 1GB
$0.005
Flat fee for starting an Actor run for each 1 GB of memory.
Cost per backlink data
$0.0025
Cost per input URL for which backlinks data scraped
