Does anyone have an example of using the Moz API with curl in bash?
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Does anyone have an example of using the Moz API with curl in bash?
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The link metrics documentation can be found here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-api/mozscape/api-reference/link-metrics
Great example for url-metrics!
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However, what is the API call for getting backlinks?
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Anytime!
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sweet! thanks! it works! here is my example for anyone else:
#!/bin/bash
access_id="xxxxxxx"secret_key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
The number of external links to the URL, including nofollowed links
External links: 549755813888 ued
The number of external links to the subdomain, including nofollowed links
External links to subdomain: 140737488355328 fed
The number of external links to the root domain, including nofollowed links
External links to root domain: 2251799813685248 ped
searchurl=$1
echo "Checking backlinks for ["$searchurl"]"
endpoint="lsapi.seomoz.com"call="/url-metrics/${searchurl}%2fCols=1073741825"
call="/url-metrics/${searchurl}%2fCols=549755813888"
timenow=$(date +%s)
timeend=$(( ${timenow} + (606024) ))
stringToSign=${access_id}$'\n'${timeend}
signature=$(echo -n "${stringToSign}" | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac "${secret_key}" -binary | base64)
signature=$(echo ${signature} | sed 's/+/%2B/g;s/=/%3D/g')http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/moz.com%2Fblog?Cols=4&AccessID=member-cf180f7081&Expires=1225138899&Signature=LmXYcPqc%2BkapNKzHzYz2BI4SXfC%3D
http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/moz.com%2FCols=1073741825?AccessID=mozscape-9d88c16268&Expires=1476310241&Signature=Nuy5h4bV5Gkyw5s2X09E9WJ3sGQ%3D
for i in {1..250}; do
curl "http://lsapi1.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/10.portal.athenahealth.com?Filter=external&SourceCols=133982846973&TargetCols=133982846973&Sort=page_authority&AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}&Scope=page_to_domain&Limit=5&Offset=$((i100))&"
done| tr "}" "n" | perl -pe "s/[][]//g" | perl -pe "s/,{//g" | perl -pe "s/"[^"]"://g" | perl -pe "s/^{//g" >> output.csv
url="http://$endpoint/linkscape$call?AccessID=${access_id}&Expires=${timeend}&Signature=${signature}"
echo "Calling Moz API with ["$url"]"
curl $url
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Hi Carl
We do not have documentation but here is an old post that should work:
https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/rapid-protoyping-with-the-seomoz-api/
Hope this helps!
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