# screamingfrog-audit-mcp

> Drive the Screaming Frog SEO Spider from any MCP client: headless crawls, a ranked issue register, derived analysis and a shareable report.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/screamingfrog-audit-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Muhammad Shahid
- homepage: https://github.com/mshahiddigital/screamingfrog-audit-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/mshahiddigital/screamingfrog-audit-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 1.4.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: crawler, mcp, screaming-frog, seo, site-audit, technical-seo
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:screamingfrog-audit-mcp

### Description (declared)

# screamingfrog-audit-mcp

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Drive the [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/)
from Claude, Cursor, or any other MCP client. Crawl a site, get a ranked issue
register back, ask questions of the crawl data, and render a shareable report —
without opening the GUI or writing a single command.

### It works on the free, unlicensed SEO Spider

That is the point of this server, and it is unusual: the other MCP servers for
Screaming Frog build on its saved-crawl database, which is a licensed feature,
so they need a paid install. This one drives the crawl directly and never
touches that database.

The free tier caps you at 500 URLs **per invocation** — not per site. So
`full=true` reads `robots.txt` and the sitemaps, splits the URLs into batches
under the cap, runs each through list mode, and merges the exports. A
3,000-page site audits completely on a free install.

A licence removes the cap and unlocks `config=` for JavaScript rendering and
custom extraction. Both tiers are supported and the server adapts to whichever
you have.

```
You:  Crawl example.com and tell me what's actually broken.

→ start_crawl(url="https://example.com")
→ crawl_status()                     # 248 URLs, 51s
→ get_issues(priority="High")

Claude: Three high-priority problems. The big one: robots.txt disallows
/_next/, which hides 85 JS and CSS bundles from Google...
```

## Install

### Step 1 — the two things you need

**Screaming Frog SEO Spider**, installed on the same computer
([download](https://w…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- content.seo (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/screamingfrog-audit-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T12:21:02.958Z)

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