Find Broken Links
Crawl a website instantly and find broken links (404s) and server errors. Bulk export the errors and source URLs to fix, or send to a developer.
The SEO Spider is a desktop website auditor for PC, Mac or Linux which crawls websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps like a search engine to evaluate onsite SEO.
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler, that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key onsite elements to analyse onsite SEO. Download for free, or purchase a licence for additional advanced features.
Compare Versions DownloadThe SEO Spider is powerful, flexible and able to crawl both small and very large websites efficiently, allowing you to analyse the results in real-time. It gathers key onsite data to allow SEOs to make informed decisions. Some of the common uses include –
Crawl a website instantly and find broken links (404s) and server errors. Bulk export the errors and source URLs to fix, or send to a developer.
Find temporary and permanent redirects, identify redirect chains and loops, or upload a list of URLs to audit in a site migration.
Analyse page titles and meta descriptions during a crawl and identify those that are too long, short, missing, or duplicated across your site.
Discover exact duplicate URLs with an md5 algorithmic check, partially duplicated elements such as page titles, descriptions or headings and find low content pages.
Collect any data from the HTML of a web page using CSS Path, XPath or regex. This might include social meta tags, additional headings, prices, SKUs or more!
View URLs blocked by robots.txt, meta robots or X-Robots-Tag directives such as ‘noindex’ or ‘nofollow’, as well as canonicals and rel=“next” and rel=“prev”.
Quickly create XML Sitemaps and Image XML Sitemaps, with advanced configuration over URLs to include, last modified, priority and change frequency.
Connect to the Google Analytics API and fetch user data, such as sessions or bounce rate and conversions, goals, transactions and revenue for landing pages against the crawl.
Licences last 1 year. After that you will be required to renew your licence.
* The maximum number of URLs you can crawl is dependent on allocated memory and storage. Please see our FAQ.
Some of the biggest brands & agencies use our software.
The SEO Spider is regularly featured in top publications.
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an SEO auditing tool, built by real SEOs with thousands of users worldwide. A quick summary of some of the data collected in a crawl include -
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider allows you to quickly crawl, analyse and audit a site from an onsite SEO perspective. It can be used to crawl both small and very large websites, where manually checking every page would be extremely labour intensive (or impossible!) and where you can easily miss a redirect, meta refresh or duplicate page issue. You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface.
The SEO Spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (URL, page title, meta description, headings etc) to Excel so it can easily be used as a base for SEO recommendations. Our video above provides a demonstration of what the SEO tool can do.
The ‘lite’ version of the tool is free to download and use. However, this version is restricted to crawling a maximum of 500 URLs in a single crawl and it does not give you full access to the configuration, saving of crawls, the custom source search or extraction features and Google Analytics integration. You can crawl 500 URLs from the same website, or as many websites as you like, as many times as you like, though!
For just £149 per year you can purchase a licence, which removes the 500 URL crawl limit, allows you to save crawls, opens up the spider’s configuration options and custom source code search, extraction and Google Analytics integration features.
Alternatively hit the ‘buy a licence’ button in the SEO Spider to buy a licence after downloading and trialing the software.
As default the SEO Spider crawls sites like Googlebot (it obeys allow, disallow directives and wildcard support like Googlebot), but presents its own user-agent ‘Screaming Frog SEO Spider’, which it will obey specific directives for in robots.txt. If there are no directives, it will crawl your site like Googlebot. while still presenting its own UA.
For more guidance and tips on our to use the Screaming Frog SEO crawler –
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If you have any technical problems, feedback or feature requests for the SEO Spider, then please just contact us via our support. We regularly update the SEO Spider and currently have lots of new features in development!
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