rah_metrics: Export metrics about the target, such as total number of...

In Leszek-Sieminski/RAhrefs: 'Ahrefs' API R Interface

Description

Export metrics about the target, such as total number of backlinks, referring pages, etc., that are similar to the Site Explorer Overview page with the addition of stats for total number of HTML pages, internal and external links.

Usage

rah_metrics(target, token = Sys.getenv("AHREFS_AUTH_TOKEN"),
  mode = "domain", metrics = NULL, limit = 1000, order_by = NULL,
  where = NULL, having = NULL)

Arguments

target	character string. Aim of a request: a domain, a directory or a URL
token	character string. Authentication token. Should be available through enviromental variables after authentication with function rah_auth()
mode	character string. Mode of operation: exact, domain, subdomains or prefix. See more in Details section
metrics	character vector of columns to select. See more in Details section
limit	integer. Number of results to return
order_by	character vector of columns to sort on. See more in Details section
where	character string - a condition created by rah_condition_set() function that generates proper "where" condition to satisfy. See more in Details section
having	character string - a condition created by rah_condition_set() function that generates proper "having" condition to satisfy. See more in Details section

Details

1. available metrics - you can select which columns (metrics) you want to download and which one would be useful in filtering, BUT not all of them can always be used in "where" & "having" conditions:

Column	Type	Where	Having	Description
backlinks	int	-	-	Number of external backlinks found on the referring pages that link to the target.
refpages	int	-	-	Number of external web pages containing at least one backlink that links to the target.
pages	int	-	-	Number of unique pages visited by the Ahrefs crawler on the target.
text	int	-	-	Number of backlinks that use anchor texts.
image	int	-	-	Number of backlinks that use image as an anchor.
nofollow	int	-	-	Number of NoFollow backlinks that link to the target.
dofollow	int	-	-	Number of DoFollow backlinks that link to the target.
redirect	int	-	-	Number of redirects found that forward to the target.
canonical	int	-	-	Number of canonical backlinks that link to the target.
gov	int	-	-	Number of backlinks of all types (including images and NoFollow) found on web pages on governmental domains that link to the target.
edu	int	-	-	Number of backlinks of all types (including images and NoFollow) found on web pages on educational domains that link to the target.
html_pages	int	-	-	Number of HTML pages the target link has.
links_internal	int	-	-	Number of internal links found in the target.
links_external	int	-	-	Number of external links found in the target.

2. "mode" parameter can take 4 different values that will affect how the results will be grouped.

Example of URL directory with folder:

• Example URL: ahrefs.com/api/

• exact: ahrefs.com/api/

• domain: ahrefs.com/*

• subdomains: *ahrefs.com/*

• prefix: ahrefs.com/api/*

Example of URL directory with subdomain:

• Example URL: apiv2.ahrefs.com

• exact: apiv2.ahrefs.com/

• domain: apiv2.ahrefs.com/*

• subdomains: *apiv2.ahrefs.com/*

• prefix: apiv2.ahrefs.com/*

3. "order_by" parameter is a character string that forces sorting of the results. Structure:

• Structure: "column_name:asc|desc"

• Single column example: "first_seen:asc" ~ this sorts results by first_seen column in ascending order

• Multi column example: "last_seen:desc,first_seen:asc" ~ this sorts results by 1) last_seen column in descending order, and next by 2) first_seen column in ascending order

4. "where" & "having" are EXPERIMENTAL parameters of condition sets (character strings) that control filtering the results. To create arguments:

1. use rah_condition() function to create a single condition, for example: cond_1 <- rah_condition(column_name = "links", operator = "GREATER_THAN", value = "10")

2. use rah_condition_set() function to group single conditions into final condition string, for example: fin_cond <- rah_condition_set(cond_1, cond_2)

3. provide final condition to proper report function as a parameter, for example: RAhrefs::rah_metrics(target = "ahrefs.com", token = "0123456789", mode = "domain", metrics = NULL, limit = 1000, where = fin_cond, order_by = "first_seen:asc")

Value

data frame

Source

https://ahrefs.com/api/documentation

See Also

Other Ahrefs reports: rah_ahrefs_rank, rah_anchors_refdomains, rah_anchors, rah_backlinks_new_lost_counters, rah_backlinks_new_lost, rah_backlinks_one_per_domain, rah_backlinks, rah_broken_backlinks, rah_broken_links, rah_domain_rating, rah_linked_anchors, rah_linked_domains_by_type, rah_linked_domains, rah_metrics_extended, rah_pages_extended, rah_pages_info, rah_pages, rah_refdomains_by_type, rah_refdomains_new_lost_counters, rah_refdomains_new_lost, rah_refdomains, rah_refips, rah_subscription_info

Examples

## Not run: 
# downloading
b <- RAhrefs::rah_metrics(
  target   = "ahrefs.com",
  limit    = 2,,
  order_by = "backlinks:desc")

## End(Not run)

Leszek-Sieminski/RAhrefs documentation built on May 10, 2021, 8:45 a.m.