# Domain History Checker – Backlink & Authority History by Month (`rowfeed/domain-history-checker`) Actor

Look up the history of any domain before you buy it or link to it: domain strength, backlinks and referring domains every month since 2019, new and lost links, spam score, and optionally Google traffic for the last 6 months. Expired domain checks, pay per domain.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/domain-history-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, AI
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $200.00 / 1,000 domain histories

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Domain History Checker – Backlink & Authority History by Month

Check the history of any domain before you buy it, link to it or redirect it: its strength, backlinks and linking domains for every month since 2019, the links it won and lost each month, its spam score, and optionally its Google traffic for the last 6 months.

- **Expired and aged domains:** see when the links were built, when they disappeared and whether the profile was spammed, before you pay for a domain.
- **Peak and now in every row:** the month with the most linking domains, the latest count and the drop in percent, so a dead domain shows at a glance.
- **Competitors and link partners:** see when a site grew its links and whether its link building is still going.
- **Up to 500 domains per run**, one row per domain and month, ready for a chart or a spreadsheet.

Built for SEOs buying expired domains, domain investors, agencies vetting link partners and site migrations.

### Example output row

```json
{"domain": "notion.so", "month": "2026-10", "domain_strength": 632, "backlinks": 9645944, "referring_domains": 127910, "new_referring_domains": 7182, "lost_referring_domains": 4382, "spam_score": 0, "first_month_with_links": "2019-01", "peak_referring_domains": 132850, "peak_month": "2025-07", "referring_domains_now": 127910, "drop_from_peak_pct": 4}
```

### How to use

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) at the top of this page to open the input form.
2. Fill in **Domains**. Domains or URLs (a URL is turned into its domain). The form comes with a working example, so you can also run it as it is.
3. Optional: adjust **From year**, **Add Google traffic history**, **Country**, **Language**. Every field has a sensible default.
4. Click **Start** and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the **Output** tab, or get them through the Apify API, a schedule or an integration (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets ...).

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **$0.20 per domain** for the full monthly backlink history.
- **$1.00 per domain** extra for the Google traffic history (optional).
- $0.002 per run start.

Examples: 10 domains cost $2.00. One domain with traffic history costs $1.20. The pre-filled example is served from a saved run and costs only the start fee.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `domains` | Up to 500 domains. |
| `fromYear` | First year of the history (2019 or later). |
| `includeTraffic` | Add estimated Google visits and ranking keywords for the last 6 months. |
| `country`, `language` | Google market for the traffic history. |

### Good to know

- **Live lookups need a paid Apify plan** (any plan); the pre-filled example works on the free plan.
- Backlink history comes from DataForSEO's link index and starts in January 2019. A domain with no links in that time returns one row that says so (still charged: the data provider bills every lookup).
- Traffic is an estimate from Google rankings (DataForSEO Labs), not the site's own analytics.
- For who owned a domain and when it was registered, use the WHOIS tool below.

### More tools from Rowfeed

- [WHOIS Lookup & Domain Age Checker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/domain-rdap-checker) – registration date, expiry and registrar.
- [Wayback Machine Scraper](https://apify.com/rowfeed/wayback-internet-archive-scraper) – what the site looked like in the past.
- [Backlinks Checker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/backlink-checker) – every backlink a domain has today.
- [Redirect Map Generator](https://apify.com/rowfeed/redirect-map-generator) – 301 redirects that keep an old domain's link value.
- [Domain Availability Checker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/domain-availability-checker) – which domains are free to register, one name in every TLD.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Domains or URLs (a URL is turned into its domain). Up to 500.

## `fromYear` (type: `integer`):

First year of the monthly history. Data starts in 2019.

## `includeTraffic` (type: `boolean`):

Estimated Google visits and ranking keywords for the last 6 months ($1.00 per domain extra).

## `country` (type: `string`):

Google country for the traffic history, e.g. United States, Germany.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Search language for the traffic history, e.g. English, German.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "notion.so"
  ],
  "fromYear": 2019,
  "includeTraffic": false,
  "country": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "domains": [
        "notion.so"
    ],
    "country": "United States",
    "language": "English"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowfeed/domain-history-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "domains": ["notion.so"],
    "country": "United States",
    "language": "English",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rowfeed/domain-history-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "domains": [
    "notion.so"
  ],
  "country": "United States",
  "language": "English"
}' |
apify call rowfeed/domain-history-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/domain-history-checker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jfPqJPHbmhJ99jzxR/builds/dpIcFF6FuOpBxxHaX/openapi.json