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  "slug": "screaming-frog-seo-spider",
  "name": "Screaming Frog SEO Spider",
  "url": "https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/",
  "cat": "seo",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Desktop website crawler",
  "price": "Free: 500 URLs per crawl with nearly all features. Licence £199/year per user (roughly $250). Volume discounts: £189 each at 5-9 licences, £179 at 10-19, £169 at 20+.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "SEO Spider is a desktop crawler that fetches every URL on a site and reports broken links, redirect chains, duplicate titles, missing meta descriptions, hreflang errors and orphan pages. It renders JavaScript and pulls in Search Console, Analytics and PageSpeed Insights data.",
  "why": "Fastest way to find what is technically broken before blaming the algorithm. Free mode crawls 500 URLs, which covers a young project entirely, and the licence just removes the cap.",
  "warn": "It runs on your machine and eats RAM — large crawls need database storage mode and patience. No scheduling, history or dashboards unless you build them yourself.",
  "install": "Download the desktop app; free mode needs no account.",
  "category": {
    "key": "seo",
    "name": "SEO, growth & newsletter",
    "desc": "Getting found, and owning the audience once you are.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T20:13:57.562+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}