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Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is a UK-based SEO software company and search marketing agency, best known for the SEO Spider website crawler tool used by SEO professionals worldwide to perform technical SEO audits, crawl analysis, and integrations with third-party APIs. The SEO Spider integrates with Google Analytics (GA4), Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, Ahrefs, Majestic, Moz, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, and Anthropic. Screaming Frog also offers a free Log File Analyser for analyzing server log files to understand search bot behavior.

Screaming Frog publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Website Crawler, Technical Audit, and Marketing.

The Screaming Frog catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Screaming Frog’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, support, and 4 more developer resources.

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34.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
2 APIs
SEOSearch Engine OptimizationWebsite CrawlerTechnical AuditMarketingAnalytics

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 34.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu that performs comprehensive technical SEO audits. It crawls websites to find broken lin...

Screaming Frog Log File Analyser

The Screaming Frog Log File Analyser is a free desktop tool that allows SEO professionals to upload and analyze server log files to understand how search bots are crawling a web...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Screaming Frog Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Screaming Frog Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Screaming Frog Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Screaming Frog Context

20 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Screaming Frog API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Screaming Frog Crawl Result

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Screaming Frog Crawl Result Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Screaming Frog Crawl Result Example

20 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Screaming Frog Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact
 Support
Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: screaming-frog
name: Screaming Frog
description: Screaming Frog is a UK-based SEO software company and search marketing agency, best known for the SEO Spider
  website crawler tool used by SEO professionals worldwide to perform technical SEO audits, crawl analysis, and integrations
  with third-party APIs. The SEO Spider integrates with Google Analytics (GA4), Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights,
  Ahrefs, Majestic, Moz, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, and Anthropic. Screaming Frog also offers a free Log File Analyser for analyzing
  server log files to understand search bot behavior.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/screaming-frog.png
tags:
- SEO
- Search Engine Optimization
- Website Crawler
- Technical Audit
- Marketing
- Analytics
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-02'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: screaming-frog:seo-spider
  name: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
  description: The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu that performs comprehensive
    technical SEO audits. It crawls websites to find broken links, analyze page titles and meta data, discover duplicate content,
    generate XML sitemaps, and integrate with third-party APIs including Google Analytics, Google Search Console, PageSpeed
    Insights, Ahrefs, Majestic, Moz, and AI services (OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Anthropic). The Spider acts as an API consumer,
    pulling external metrics and data into crawl reports.
  humanURL: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
  tags:
  - SEO
  - Crawler
  - Technical Audit
  - Analytics Integration
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/pricing/
  - type: ReleaseHistory
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/release-history/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/json-schema/screaming-frog-crawl-result-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/json-structure/screaming-frog-crawl-result-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/json-ld/screaming-frog-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/screaming-frog-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/examples/screaming-frog-crawl-result-example.json
- aid: screaming-frog:log-file-analyser
  name: Screaming Frog Log File Analyser
  description: The Screaming Frog Log File Analyser is a free desktop tool that allows SEO professionals to upload and analyze
    server log files to understand how search bots are crawling a website. It identifies which pages bots visit, how frequently
    they crawl them, and highlights crawl budget inefficiencies. Available for Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu with a paid license
    removing crawl limits.
  humanURL: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/
  tags:
  - SEO
  - Log Analysis
  - Bot Detection
  - Crawl Analysis
  - Crawl Budget
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/user-guide/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/screaming-frog-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/screaming-frog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/blog/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/contact/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/pricing/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/faq/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com