Yahoo! Search Web Services - Site Explorer Inbound Links API

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Request URL

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData

Request parameters

See information on constructing REST queries

Parameter	Value	Description
appid	string (required)	The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
query	string (required)	The domain or path to get inlink data for.
results	integer: default 50, max 100	The number of results to return.
start	integer: default 1	The starting result position to return (1-based). The finishing position (start + results - 1) cannot exceed 1000.
entire_site	no value (default), or 1	Specifies whether to provide results for the entire site, or just the page referenced by the query. If the query is not a domain URL (i.e. it contains path information, such as http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/), this parameter has no effect.
omit_inlinks	none (default), domain, or subdomain	If specified, inlinks will not be returned if they are from pages in the same domain/subdomain as the requested page.
output	string: xml (default), json, php	The format for the output. If json is requested, the results will be returned in JSON format. If php is requested, the results will be returned in Serialized PHP format.
callback	string	The name of the callback function to wrap around the JSON data. The following characters are allowed: A-Z a-z 0-9 . [] and _. If output=json has not been requested, this parameter has no effect. More information on the callback can be found in the Yahoo! Developer Network JSON Documentation.

Sample Request Url: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData?appid=YahooDemo&query=http://search.yahoo.com&results=2

Response fields

The schema document for this service response is located at http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/InlinkDataResponse.xsd

Field	Description
ResultSet	Contains all of the query responses. Has attributes: totalResultsAvailable: The number of URLs in the database that link to the domain or page. totalResultsReturned: The number of URLs returned. This may be lower than the number of results requested if there were fewer total results available. firstResultPosition: The position of the first URL in the overall result set.
Result	Contains each individual response.
Title	The title of the linking web page.
Url	The URL for the linking web page.
ClickUrl	The URL that should be used to link to the inlinking page. See URL linking for more information.

Sample response

The following is a sample response for the query http://search.yahoo.com:

<ResultSet xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:yahoo:srch" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:srch http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/PageDataResponse.xsd" totalResultsAvailable="617888" firstResultPosition="1" totalResultsReturned="2">
  <Result>
    <Title>Common Dreams | News & Views</Title>
    <Url>http://www.commondreams.org/</Url>
    <ClickUrl>http://rds.yahoo.com/SIG=11m331clj/EXP=1128100988/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2F</ClickUrl>
  </Result>
  <Result>
    <Title>JunkScience.com -- Main Page</Title>
    <Url>http://www.junkscience.com/</Url>
    <ClickUrl>http://rds.yahoo.com/SIG=11l98be9a/EXP=1128100988/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.junkscience.com%2F</ClickUrl>
  </Result>
</ResultSet>

Rate Limit

The Inlink Data service is limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Inlink Data service returns the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.