Some years after we disabled the @Moz link API in our product as an add-on source due to performance reason. @randfish was still around.

We now reviewed the new API and specs again.

Turns out the maximum you could get is 100k links.
In batches of 50 links. Yes 50. not 50k.
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You wait 33 minutes to get those 100k!

API details:

- max. limit 50 links per response
- max. 100k links per domain(!)
- up to 2000 requests for one domain link profile (max. 100k links)

with 1 req/second = up to 2000 seconds (~33 minutes) for one domain link profile

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And that's max. 100k links for a domain. Not milllions. Thousands.

I don't know who uses this API, what Moz designed it for. We get millions of links per second from our sources and APIs. For a decade.

And max 100k links?

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Major performance issues were reason to drop MOZ years ago, and the revisit didn't go well in 2020.

Curious - are YOU using the MOZ Link API at all?

For which use case?

How do you live with data truncation?

#links
#data
#SEO

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