Which site has link to my site?

Question

I have a site, let's say www.example.com

An unknown site has a link to my site.

Can I find out automatically where the link is coming from by running a script on www.example.com? window.opener or window.parent?

Please do not think about browser debugging tools, browser extensions or running javascript by user by writing it to the url bar.

Are you asking how to scan the Web for links to your site, or how to find out, on a page of yours, what was the referring page if the page was reached by following a link at some other site? These are quite different questions. — Jukka K. Korpela, Jul 22 '14 at 10:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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document.referrer gives you the URI of the page that linked to the current page.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Jul 22 '14 at 08:33

Assuming that the browser has not been configured so that it does not send referrer information, – Jukka K. Korpela Jul 22 '14 at 08:36
@JukkaK.Korpela Hmm, yes, but only if all users did that would it not work for this purpose. – Lee Kowalkowski Jul 22 '14 at 08:37
@LeeKowalkowski, that depends on what the purpose is. – Jukka K. Korpela Jul 22 '14 at 09:58
@JukkaK.Korpela: Yup, I'm guessing it's to convert 'unknown site' to 'known site'. Because otherwise the question language would be something else like how can I tell users coming from site a vs users from site b, dunno... – Lee Kowalkowski Jul 22 '14 at 10:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 08:53

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Have you tried using the link: operator in a Google search?

answered Jul 22 '14 at 08:53

Lee Kowalkowski

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