Screaming Frog

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. Screaming Frog operates no public web API. Its machine-callable surfaces
  are the SEO Spider command line interface, which runs the product fully headless, and — since version 24.0, released 19
  May 2026 — a first-party Model Context Protocol server built into the desktop application, exposing 29 tools for crawl control,
  reports, bulk exports, URL inspection, screenshots, embeddings, Node scripting and sandboxed file access. The MCP server
  is a paid licence feature and runs inside the user's own installation over stdio or a loopback HTTP transport; there is
  no hosted endpoint.
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
- Website Crawler
- Technical Audit
- Marketing
- Analytics
- MCP
- Agents
- Desktop Software
- Command Line
tags_raw:
- SEO
- Search Engine Optimization
- Website Crawler
- Technical Audit
- Marketing
- Analytics
- MCP
- Agents
- Desktop Software
- Command Line
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-08-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
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  - type: JSONLDContext
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  - type: Vocabulary
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  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/screaming-frog/refs/heads/main/examples/screaming-frog-crawl-result-example.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/screaming-frog-mcp.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/screaming-frog-cli.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/screaming-frog-data-model.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/guides/mcp-server/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/tutorials/quick-start-guide/
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/support/
- 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/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/pricing/
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/support/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/terms-conditions/
  - type: ReleaseHistory
    url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/release-history/
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/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/support/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/screamingfrog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/privacy/
- type: Login
  url: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/login/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/screaming-frog-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/screaming-frog-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/screaming-frog-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/screaming-frog-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/screaming-frog-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/screaming-frog-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/screaming-frog-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: mcp-server-and-cli-documented
  detail: Screaming Frog ships no web API, but it does ship a fully documented first-party MCP server (SEO Spider v24, 29
    tools with published parameter schemas) and a complete headless CLI, both harvested this pass from the provider's own
    pages.
  checked: '2026-08-13'