Screaming Frog SEO Spider

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What is Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

About

Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Used by companies to crawl individual websites.

Operator

Screaming Frog

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Did you find Screaming Frog SEO Spider/5.1 in your logs?

If you've seen Screaming Frog SEO Spider/5.1 in your website logs, it indicates that Screaming Frog SEO Spider has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider/5.1

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Expected Behavior

Web crawlers visit websites on a regular schedule to index content for search engines or other services. They typically follow a consistent crawling pattern and respect robots.txt directives.

Should I Block Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

Screaming Frog SEO SpiderShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Screaming Frog SEO Spider

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

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