I want to check the backlinks of a popular website for research purposes. I need a free tool like backlinkwatch.com, but it must be able to display around 21,000 text links plus their anchor text. Is there any free tool that can do this?
I have never seen anything free that would do that type of work although I have something similar to that that I wrote in perl. You could probably try scriptlance.com or getafreelancer.com for some cheap Indian labor or pick up a book and learn to program it yourself. It is actually really easy to do in perl(less than 20 lines of code). You want to use either LWP or WWW::Mechanize (my personal favorite).