Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler for auditing technical SEO issues and user experience. It can locate broken links and server errors, inspect redirects, and flag page titles and meta descriptions that are missing, duplicated, or too long. For JavaScript-heavy sites, its integrated Chromium WRS can render pages and crawl frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue.js. The crawler can extract page data through CSS Path, XPath, regular expressions, or custom JavaScript. It connects with Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights APIs, and lists link-metrics integrations for Majestic, Ahrefs, and Moz. Teams can schedule crawls, export data to destinations such as Google Sheets, automate work from the command line, and compare crawl results or staging against production. The free version runs without signup or email capture but is limited to 500 URLs per crawl and restricts saving crawls, configuration, and advanced features. A paid licence costs $279.00 USD per year; crawl size is unlimited subject to allocated memory and storage. It supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Who it is for
The maker describes SEO Spider as designed for experienced SEOs and used by professional SEO teams, agencies, and brands. It suits readers looking for technical site audits across Linux, macOS, or Windows.
What is good
- Audits more than 300 SEO issues.
- Crawls JavaScript pages using integrated Chromium WRS.
- Supports custom extraction with CSS Path, XPath, and regex.
- Schedules crawls and compares results.
- Free use requires no signup or email capture.
What to know first
- Free crawls are capped at 500 URLs.
- Free version restricts saving and advanced features.
- Technical support is for paid users.
- Paid licence requires yearly renewal.
Verdict
SEO Spider combines technical crawling with JavaScript rendering, extraction, integrations, and automation. The free tier has meaningful limits, while the $279.00 USD yearly licence removes the fixed crawl-size cap subject to allocated memory and storage.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider plans and pricing
All plansCompared on SEO tools
- Free plan
- Yes
- Backlink analysis
- Yes
