Site Explorer

Runs the backlinks, domain authority, top pages and anchor text lookups together and returns the first 10 rows of each in one response. Use it for a quick overview of a site, such as a dashboard header or an agent's first look at a competitor. Data comes from the pre-processed link graph snapshot (see Response format).

Request

Parameters

This endpoint has no limit or offset. Each list is fixed at 10 rows. For more rows, call Backlinks, Top Pages and Anchor Text directly.

Example

curl "https://api.rankparse.com/v1/site-explorer?domain=stripe.com" \
  -H "X-API-Key: rp_your_key"

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.rankparse.com/v1/site-explorer",
    params={"domain": "stripe.com"},
    headers={"X-API-Key": "rp_your_key"},
    timeout=90,
)
res.raise_for_status()
body = res.json()
print(body["data"]["authority"]["score"], len(body["data"]["top_pages"]))

const params = new URLSearchParams({ domain: "stripe.com" });

const res = await fetch(`https://api.rankparse.com/v1/site-explorer?${params}`, {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": "rp_your_key" },
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const { data, partial } = await res.json();
console.log(data.authority, data.top_pages, partial ?? false);

Response

{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "data": {
    "backlinks": [
      {
        "from_domain": "techcrunch.com",
        "from_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/stripe-launches-new-billing-tools/",
        "to_url": "https://stripe.com/billing",
        "anchor_text": "Stripe Billing",
        "rel": null,
        "link_type": "hyperlink",
        "crawled_at": "2026-02-10"
      }
    ],
    "backlinks_total": 1,
    "authority": {
      "score": 100,
      "referring_domains": 21234,
      "total_host_count": 4410982,
      "registered_at": "1995-09-14T00:00:00Z",
      "registrar": "MarkMonitor Inc.",
      "popularity_rank": 812,
      "health_score": 100,
      "risk_flags": []
    },
    "top_pages": [
      {
        "url": "https://stripe.com/",
        "inbound_links": 5678,
        "referring_domains": 1234,
        "status_code": 200,
        "mime": "text/html"
      }
    ],
    "anchor_text": [
      { "anchor_text": "Stripe", "link_count": 48210, "domain_count": 9120 }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 10,
  "credits_remaining": 990
}

Response fields

Top level:

Fields in data:

Behavior and limits

• Credits: a flat 10 per call, charged before the lookup. Server errors are refunded. Calling the four endpoints separately costs 7 credits for the same first rows, so use Site Explorer when you want one request and one response, not to save credits.
• Partial results: the sections run in parallel under one time budget. When a section falls back to a degraded answer, the response carries partial: true, is billed normally, and is not cached. For example authority.score can be null (unknown, not zero), as described on Domain Authority. If the budget is exhausted without usable partial data, the call fails with 503 query_timeout and the credits are refunded.
• Caching: complete results are cached for 30 days per crawl release. A cache hit is billed the same as a fresh lookup.
• Empty results: a domain with no data returns 200 with empty lists and zeroed authority values, never 404.
• Rate limit: 60 requests per minute per key. See Rate limiting.

Errors

See Errors for the full list and the error body format.

Related

MCP tool: get_site_explorer (accepts domain).