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title: "DataForSEO / Get a backlink summary for a domain"
description: "DataForSEO tool dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai on looot: input fields, $0.024 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Returns a backlink overview for a domain, subdomain or page. Send target; include_subdomains and exclude_internal_backlinks refine it. Returns backlinks, backlinks_spam_score, broken_backlinks, broken_pages and crawled_pages.

- **Tool id:** `dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai`
- **Provider:** [DataForSEO](/providers/dataforseo)
- **Job:** [Get authority and backlink totals for a domain](/reference/jobs/backlinks-domain-summary) (`backlinks.domain.summary`)
- **Price:** $0.024 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `exclude_internal_backlinks` | boolean | no | indicates if internal backlinks from subdomains to the target will be excluded from the results if set to true, the results will not include data on internal backlinks from subdomains of the same domain as target if set to false, internal links will be included in the results |
| `include_subdomains` | boolean | no | indicates if indirect links to the target will be included in the results if set to true, the results will include data on indirect links pointing to a page that either redirects to the target, or points to a canonical page if set to false, indirect links will be ignored |
| `target` | string | yes | domain, subdomain or webpage to get backlinks for required field a domain or a subdomain should be specified without https:// and www. a page should be specified with absolute URL (including http:// or https://). Example: "example.com" |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 3 real answers:

```txt
{ id, items: { info: { server, country, ip_address, platform_type: string[], target_spam_score }, rank, target, backlinks, first_seen, broken_pages, crawled_pages, referring_ips, referring_pages, broken_backlinks, referring_domains, referring_subnets, referring_links_tld: Record<string, integer>, backlinks_spam_score, external_links_count, internal_links_count, referring_links_types: { image, anchor, redirect, canonical }, referring_main_domains, referring_pages_nofollow, referring_links_countries: Record<string, integer>, referring_domains_nofollow, referring_links_attributes: { ugc, index, a... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai` prints all of it.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai","input":{"target":"example.com"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai",
    input: {
      target: "example.com",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "dataforseo-backlinks-summary-live-ai",
        "input": {
            "target": "example.com",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:backlinks.domain.summary` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/backlinks-domain-summary).