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Build Great Backlinks has posted a new item, 'Pyscape: Your Best Friend for
Using the Mozscape API'


Posted by GeoffKenyon

If you do link building and have to pull a lot of metrics from Open Site
Explorer, I would like to introduce you to your new best friend, Pyscape. You
might use a Google Doc to take advantage of the Mozscape API, but this is
better. I promise.


Pyscape, created by fellow Distiller Ben Estes, enables you to pull link data
such as an export of more than 10,000 backlinks or look up Moz metrics for a
bulk URL list. And itâs super-fast.

What does Pyscape do?

When you use Pyscape, you must choose one of the following operating modes to
run:


Metrics: This will simply show all the Moz metrics associated with the given
URL, subdomain, or domain.
Bulk-metrics: This will show you the Moz metrics for a bulk URL list.
Anchor: This will give you all the anchors associated with a URL, subdomain, or
domain.
Top: This will return the top pages on a site.
Links: This gives you a list of links pointing to a URL, subdomain, or domain.
Ose-style: This will return an Open Site Explorer formatted list of links for a
URL, subdomain, or domain.


It is also worth noting that Pyscape does not cut off your reports at 10,000
URLs, and it can be much faster than using the Open Site Explorer Interface
â especially for sites with large link profiles.


Selecting Your Granularity


In addition to telling Pyscape which report you want to run, you need to give
it a little more guidance. This is especially important because Pyscape will
pick an intelligent set of fields to grab from Mozscape based on the options you
specify. Start by telling Pyscape how it should interpret the URL(s) that you
input:


-d (domain): interprets the URL(s) as domains only
-s (subdomain): interprets the URL(s) as subdomains only
-p (page): interprets the URL(s) as the specific pages only


Links Mode


If you are in the links operating mode, here are a few more commands you
should know:


-o (one): will return one URL per linking domain in links mode
-m (many): will return up to 25 pages per linking domain in link mode (this is
the default)


Anchor Mode


Finally, there are a couple more directives you should know if you are going
to use the anchor mode:


-f (phrase): will return anchor text phrases
-t (term): will return term matches (default)

Setting Up Pyscape

So now that weâve covered what Pyscape will do, letâs look at how
we use it. The following steps will take you through setting up Pyscape.


Go to the Pyscape homepage; download the zip file and then extract it.

Enter your Mozcape API credentials (free or paid) in the keys.json file. Get
your credentials here.
Download and install Python, version 3.2 or above (download here).
Go give Pyscape an upvote on inbound.org to say thank you to Ben, or follow him
on twitter.

Running Your First Pyscape Report

Ok, now that weâve got Pyscape installed, Iâm going to take you
through how to run reports using the command line (It sounds technical but
itâs really pretty easy).


Start up the "Command Prompt" application.
Next you'll need to change the directory that the application is operating in
to the directory where you have extracted Pyscape. "Enter "CD" followed by the
folder path leading to the extracted Pyscape directory and hit enter.
Now enter your request. Below are some sample requests that show how requests
need to be structured.


Entering these commands will give you the data you need to start your analysis
in a nice .csv output in lightning-fast time. This Google Doc contains examples
of the output data from Pyscape to help you get a feel for which reports will
best work for you.


The rest is up to you! If you like the tool, make sure to say thanks to Ben
and to vote it up on inbound.org!

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