🔗 Semrush Backlink Scraper — Authority-Scored Backlinks for Any Domain or URL

Pull the full list of backlinks pointing to any website — with Authority Score, source URL, source title, anchor text, follow/nofollow status, and first/last-seen dates. Semrush link intelligence, on demand, pushed straight into an Apify dataset.

This Actor accepts a domain or URL, handles authentication and pagination, and returns a clean, flat backlink table ready for JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, outreach workflows or GPT pipelines. No Semrush login required.

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💡 Who is it for?

• Link-building teams generating outreach lists scored by Page Authority.
• SEO agencies running backlink audits and disavow reviews for clients.
• Competitive researchers reverse-engineering a competitor's link profile.
• Affiliate & niche-site operators scouting referring domains for partnership deals.
• PR & digital marketing teams tracking earned media and unlinked mentions.
• Data teams enriching a CRM or BI dashboard with backlink metrics.

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⚙️ How it works

You give the Actor a domain or URL and a target type. It hits the Semrush backlink report, applies smart filters (follow, content links, de-duplicated per referring domain, sorted by page Authority Score) and pushes every backlink as its own row to the Apify dataset.

Target types supported

Target type	Scope
Root Domain	All backlinks pointing to any subdomain of the root (e.g. example.com + blog.example.com)
Domain	Backlinks to one specific subdomain only
URL	Backlinks to one exact page URL

Built-in quality filters

• Follow links only (nofollow excluded)
• Content-position links only (sidebars / footers filtered out)
• Text links (images and forms excluded)
• Mobile-indexed sources
• One link per referring domain (de-duplicated)
• Sorted by page Authority Score, highest first

You get the quality backlinks, not the noise.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
q	string	✅	Domain or URL to analyze (e.g. example.com)
target	string	—	Specific target URL (when narrower than q)
target_type	string	—	root_domain (default), domain, or url

Example input

{
  "q": "example.com",
  "target_type": "root_domain"
}

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📤 Output

Each backlink is pushed as one row in the dataset. Example item:

{
  "page_ascore": 62,
  "source_title": "Best Running Shoes 2026 — Expert Reviews",
  "source_url": "https://authoritysite.com/best-running-shoes/",
  "external_link_num": 8,
  "internal_link_num": 124,
  "target_anchor": "running shoes guide",
  "target_url": "https://example.com/guide/",
  "first_seen": "2024-02-14",
  "last_seen": "2026-04-12"
}

Field reference

Field	Meaning
page_ascore	Authority Score of the linking page (0 → 100)
source_title	Title of the page hosting the backlink
source_url	URL of the page hosting the backlink
external_link_num	Total external links on the source page (dilution signal)
internal_link_num	Internal links on the source page
target_anchor	Anchor text used for the link
target_url	Page on your (or the audited) domain receiving the link
first_seen	When Semrush first indexed this backlink
last_seen	When Semrush last confirmed this backlink

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🚀 Why use this Actor

• ✅ Authority-scored results — sort/filter by page_ascore to find only high-value links.
• ✅ Noise pre-filtered — follow, content, text, one-per-domain: outreach-ready by default.
• ✅ Flat, typed schema — plug straight into BigQuery, Postgres, Sheets or a GPT.
• ✅ Any domain, any subdomain, any URL — one Actor covers site-wide and page-level audits.
• ✅ No login, no scraping, no pagination to maintain — authentication handled for you.
• ✅ Pipeline-ready — trigger from n8n, Make, Zapier, Apify Schedules or the Apify API.

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💼 Use cases

• Outreach lists: filter page_ascore ≥ 40 to build a high-quality prospect CSV in seconds.
• Competitor link audits: export every backlink a competitor earned last quarter.
• Disavow file prep: surface low-quality or suspicious referring pages.
• Anchor text analysis: spot over-optimized or brand-diluted anchors across a link profile.
• PR tracking: detect new earned placements over time via scheduled runs.
• Lost-link monitoring: compare last_seen dates month over month to flag drops.

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🧩 Part of the Semrush suite

Chain this Actor with the rest of the suite for a full SEO workflow:

Actor	What it does
🔗 Semrush Backlink Analytics	Authority-scored backlinks, anchors, referring domains (this Actor)
🔍 Semrush Keyword	Keyword ideas — volume, CPC, difficulty, intent
🌐 Semrush Domain	Full domain audit — authority, traffic, top keywords
🥊 Semrush Competitor	Up to 200 organic competitors and keyword overlap

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — you're charged $0.012 per backlink returned, plus a small per-run start fee. You only pay for backlinks you actually receive.

Backlinks returned	Approx. cost
100	~$1.20
500	~$6
2,000	~$24

New users get free result credits to try the Actor before spending anything.

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▶️ Start now

Enter a domain. Pick a target type. Hit Run. Export your dataset. High-authority backlinks on tap — for any website on the web.