Citations Time Series
Daily count of citation entries on LLM responses that point to a tracked brand domain.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.aiclicks.io/api/v1/citations-time-series?domain_id=8f1d3c0a-2f9b-4c11-9b80-7a82e1f0c3f3&days=30' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ak_live_xxx'
import httpx, os
resp = httpx.get(
"https://api.aiclicks.io/api/v1/citations-time-series",
params={
"domain_id": "8f1d3c0a-2f9b-4c11-9b80-7a82e1f0c3f3",
"days": 30,
},
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AICLICKS_API_KEY']}"},
)
resp.raise_for_status()
for row in resp.json()["data"]["items"]:
print(f"{row['date']}: {row['value']} citations")
const url = new URL("https://api.aiclicks.io/api/v1/citations-time-series");
url.searchParams.set("domain_id", "8f1d3c0a-2f9b-4c11-9b80-7a82e1f0c3f3");
url.searchParams.set("days", "30");
const resp = await fetch(url, {
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AICLICKS_API_KEY}` },
});
const { data } = await resp.json();
for (const row of data.items) {
console.log(`${row.date}: ${row.value} citations`);
}
{
"data": {
"items": [
{ "date": "2026-05-19", "value": 4 },
{ "date": "2026-05-20", "value": 7 },
{ "date": "2026-05-21", "value": 2 }
]
},
"domain_id": "8f1d3c0a-2f9b-4c11-9b80-7a82e1f0c3f3",
"days": 30,
"generated_at": "2026-06-17T10:00:11.218Z"
}
{ "detail": "domain_id query parameter is required. List the domains this key can access with GET /api/v1/domains, then pass ?domain_id=<uuid>." }
{ "detail": "Invalid or revoked API key" }
{ "detail": "API access is not enabled for this team. Contact support@aiclicks.io." }
{ "detail": "Domain not found" }
{ "detail": "Too many requests. Please try again later." }
Citations is the raw count of citation entries in LLM responses that pointed to the brand domain each day, summed across every model channel.
value = sum over models of brand_citation_count
brand_citation_count for a (date, model) is the total number of citation array entries on responses that day whose URL host matches the tracked brand. The metric uses the same per-day, per-model SQL as the prompts page Mentions chart, so the values reconcile.
A response that cites three different brand URLs contributes three. A response with no brand citations contributes zero. For the share-of-citations percentage on the same data, use GET /citability-time-series.
domain_id is a required query parameter. Use GET /api/v1/domains to discover which domains the calling key can access.
Authorizations
Your API key formatted as Bearer ak_live_<your-key>. Create one in the dashboard under Settings → Developers.
Optional UUID for log correlation. If omitted, we generate one and echo it back in the response.
Query parameters
UUID of the domain. Find domains via GET /api/v1/domains. Omitting this returns 400.
Look-back window, 1–365. Defaults to 30. Counted as an exact window (today - days + 1), not snapped to buckets.
Optional. Use one AI channel only. Give the generic name: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek or Naver. The default is all.
Optional. The first day of a fixed window, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Send it with end_date. A fixed window overrides days.
Optional. The last day of a fixed window, in YYYY-MM-DD format. The window includes this day. Send it with start_date.
Optional. Use only the prompts in one of these topics. Get the UUIDs from GET /api/v1/topics. Repeat the parameter for each ID. If you also send tag_ids, the API keeps a prompt that matches a topic or a tag.
Optional. Use only the prompts that have one of these tags. Get the UUIDs from GET /api/v1/tags. Repeat the parameter for each ID.
Optional. If true, the API ignores the cached result and calculates a new one. The new result replaces the cached one. The default is false.
Response
The list payload.
One row per day in the window, oldest first. Days with no responses are omitted.
Echo of the requested domain.
Echo of the requested window.
ISO-8601 timestamp of when the server produced (or cached) this response.
Response headers
| Header | Description |
|---|---|
X-Cache | HIT or MISS. Indicates whether the response came from cache. |
X-Request-Id | Unique request id. Echoes incoming if you set one. |
X-RateLimit-Limit | Max requests per minute for this key. |
X-RateLimit-Remaining | Requests remaining in current minute. |
X-RateLimit-Reset | Unix epoch seconds when the window resets. |
Caching
Cached for 1 hour. The cache key includes every query parameter. Newly completed analyses appear after the TTL expires.
How citations is calculated
For each (date, model) in the window:
- Take every response that ran on a tracked prompt at that date and model.
- For each response, walk its
citationsarray and count entries whose URL host matches the brand domain.
Then sum those per-model counts within each date — that's the day's value. The unit is citation entries, not unique URLs: if a response's citations array contains the same brand URL twice, both entries count. The brand domain is resolved from the domain's configured website host with exact-host matching.
Errors
domain_id query parameter missing. Body points you at /api/v1/domains.
Missing, malformed, or revoked API key.
Team's developer_access flag is off, the domain belongs to a team your API key is not scoped to, or your allowed_domains allowlist excludes it.
domain_id is malformed, does not exist, or your user is not a member of its team.
Rate limit exceeded. Inspect the Retry-After header for how long to wait.
Empty result
If no analyses ran in the window, the response is a successful 200 with an empty list:
{
"data": { "items": [] },
"domain_id": "8f1d3c0a-2f9b-4c11-9b80-7a82e1f0c3f3",
"days": 30,
"generated_at": "2026-06-17T10:00:11.218Z"
}