# Screaming Frog

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/screaming-frog/  
**Website:** https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 32.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 19.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 77.6 |
| Access Clarity | 77.6 |

## Agent readiness — 7.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP Server** — First-party Model Context Protocol server built into the Screaming Frog SEO Spider desktop application from version 24.0 (19 May 2026). It exposes the crawler's reports, bulk ex...

## Security (1)

- **Screaming Frog Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Screaming Frog Plans Pricing**

## Tags

SEO, Website Crawler, Technical Audit, Marketing, Analytics, MCP, Agents, Desktop Software, Command Line

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/screaming-frog/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.