Ahrefs MCP Server
Connect to the Ahrefs MCP server to pull backlinks, keyword and rank data, site audits, and AI brand visibility using AI agents on Gumloop, Claude, or Cursor.
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Installation
Set up the Ahrefs MCP server in Gumloop
Do this once to provision your hosted server URL.
Create a Gumloop account
To use this MCP, you need a Gumloop account. If you don't have one yet, you can create one for free.
Add and authorize the Ahrefs server
In Gumloop, open Connectors and add Ahrefs. Paste your Ahrefs API key when prompted. The credential is stored securely in Gumloop.
Then use it in your client
Use in GumloopUse Ahrefs in an agent
Once Ahrefs is set up, just open any Gumloop agent, add Ahrefs as a connector, and start chatting with the agent.
Tools (52)
Domain Rating
Get domain rating for a domain
Backlinks Stats
Get backlinks statistics for a domain or URL
Outlinks Stats
Get outlinks statistics for a domain or URL
Metrics
Get comprehensive metrics for a domain or URL
Metrics By Country
Get metrics filtered by country for a domain or URL
Pages By Traffic
Get pages by traffic for a domain or URL
Domain Rating History
Get domain rating history for a domain
Url Rating History
Get URL rating history for a URL
Refdomains History
Get referring domains history for a domain or URL
Pages History
Get pages history for a domain or URL
Metrics History
Get metrics history for a domain or URL
Keywords History
Get keywords history for a domain or URL
What is Ahrefs MCP?
The Ahrefs MCP server gives AI agents read access to your Ahrefs SEO data. That means agents can pull backlink profiles, look up domain and keyword metrics, track rankings, read site audit issues, and monitor how AI chatbots mention your brand through Brand Radar. It connects to the same SEO data your team already pays for, so an agent can answer questions about your search performance instead of you exporting reports from the Ahrefs dashboard.
SEO work involves a lot of pulling and pasting: exporting backlink lists, checking keyword difficulty one at a time, and rebuilding the same competitor and rank reports every week. The Ahrefs MCP server hands that work to an AI agent that can pull the backlinks, look up the keywords, and assemble the report. Describe what you need, and your AI agent will pull the SEO data for you.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents call external tools. Normally, using the Ahrefs API means managing an API token and writing code against the v3 endpoints. Gumloop wraps that behind a hosted server: add your Ahrefs API key once. After that, you can pull backlinks, research keywords, and track rankings just by chatting with your AI agent.
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What you can do with Ahrefs MCP on Gumloop
Analyze backlink profiles
Pull individual backlinks, broken backlinks, referring domains, and anchor text distribution, with live or all-time history.
Check domain and URL authority
Look up Domain Rating and URL Rating, plus historical trends grouped by day, week, or month.
See organic search performance
Find the keywords a site ranks for, identify its organic competitors, and surface its top pages by traffic.
Research keywords
Pull difficulty and volume for any keyword list, and discover matching terms, related terms, and search suggestions by country.
Track rankings and SERPs
Get live SERP snapshots for a keyword and project-based daily rank tracking, with competitor comparison across mobile and desktop.
Audit site health
List Site Audit projects with health scores, drill into specific SEO issues, and explore individual crawled pages.
Monitor your brand in AI answers
With Brand Radar, see how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude mention your brand, including responses, cited pages, impressions, mentions, and share of voice over time.
Run batch and historical analysis
Analyze many domains or URLs in one call, and pull historical trendlines for ratings, referring domains, keywords, traffic, and search volume.
How to connect the Gumloop Ahrefs MCP Server
- 1
Create a free Gumloop account
Sign up at gumloop.com. No credit card required.
- 2
Add the Ahrefs MCP server
Copy your MCP server URL from Gumloop and add it to your preferred client (Claude, Cursor, or Gumloop workflows). You'll authorize on first use.
- 3
Start using Ahrefs in your AI workflows
That's it. Your AI agent can now pull backlinks, research keywords, track rankings, and monitor your brand in AI answers. Use it inside a Gumloop automation, in Claude Desktop, or in Cursor.
Ahrefs MCP use cases
Backlink monitoring for SEO teams
An agent pulls new and broken backlinks for your domain on a schedule, compares them to the last run, and posts the changes to Slack, so link gains and losses get caught early.
Competitive research for marketers
An agent looks up a competitor’s organic keywords, top pages, and referring domains, then summarizes where they are winning so your team can find the gaps.
Keyword research for content teams
An agent pulls difficulty and volume for a seed list, gathers related terms and search suggestions, and drafts a prioritized keyword brief in a Google Doc.
AI visibility tracking for brand teams
Using Brand Radar, an agent tracks your share of voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude each week and reports which pages they cite, so you can see how your brand shows up in AI answers.
Rank tracking reports for agencies
An agent pulls rank tracker data and competitor positions for each client project and writes a formatted weekly report into a Google Sheet, chaining Ahrefs with the rest of your stack.
Why use Gumloop for Ahrefs MCP
Add your key once, no code
Using the Ahrefs API directly means managing an API token and writing code against the v3 endpoints. With Gumloop you add your Ahrefs API key one time and it is stored securely. No env vars, token management, or code necessary. You will need an Ahrefs subscription with API access for the key to work.
Works with multiple MCP clients
Use the same hosted Ahrefs MCP server in Gumloop, Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients. Same server URL, works with any MCP client.
Chain Ahrefs with 100+ integrations
An agent can pull backlink or keyword data from Ahrefs, format it, and write it to Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, or a doc in a single run.
Enterprise-grade hosting
Gumloop hosts the server for you and stores your API key securely, and your Ahrefs data is fetched and returned without being kept in Gumloop storage. See trust.gumloop.com for security details.
Free to start
Gumloop has a free tier so you can try the Ahrefs MCP server at no cost. Paid plans start at $37/month.
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