DataForSEO Backlinks

Install

See the Install guide for the full setup, including Windows PowerShell.

curl -fsSL https://install.skippr.io/install.sh | shClick to copy

Installing Skippr means accepting the Skippr EULA.

Daily off-page backlink snapshots via DataForSEO Backlinks API v3 live endpoints. Raw bronze only — no scorecard namespace on this source.

How it works

1. Authenticates with login/password (config or DATAFORSEO_API_USER / DATAFORSEO_API_PASS).
2. Syncs primary target and optional competitor domains (entity_kind, competitor_name on every row).
3. Emits backlink list, summary, referring domains, anchors, history, page intersection, and run rollup namespaces.

Authentication

Set credentials in the environment or in skippr.yml. See Environment variables.

Configuration

data_sources:
  dfs:
    DataForSeoBacklinks:
      site: example.com
      backlink_jobs:
        - target: example.com
          limit: 100
          max_pages: 5
      competitors:
        - name: "Rival"
          target: rival.com
      streams: [backlinks, summary, referring_domains, anchors, history]

Namespaces

Namespace	Description
dataforseo_backlinks.backlink_daily	Individual backlinks
dataforseo_backlinks.summary_daily	Domain summary metrics
dataforseo_backlinks.referring_domain_daily	Referring domains
dataforseo_backlinks.anchor_daily	Anchor text rows
dataforseo_backlinks.history_daily	Monthly history points
dataforseo_backlinks.page_intersection_daily	Competitive link gap pages
dataforseo_backlinks.site_run_daily	Run operational counters

CLI

skippr connect source dataforseo-backlinks \
  --login "${DATAFORSEO_API_USER}" \
  --password "${DATAFORSEO_API_PASS}" \
  --backlink-target example.com

Fixture dir: SKIPPR_DATAFORSEO_BACKLINKS_FIXTURE_DIR.