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.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: Example
        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: 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: [email protected]