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Screaming Frog SEO Spider

A desktop crawler anyone can run, often with a changed user agent.

  • Follows robots.txt
  • Cannot be verified
  • No public documentation
At a glanceScreaming Frog
  • UnverifiedIdentityNo published check
  • Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
  • PurposeSEO toolNot an AI product
  • TokenScreaming Frog SEO SpiderUse it in a User-agent line

robots.txt

The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.

Block Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /
Allow Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Allow: /

Quick facts

robots.txt token
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User agent contains
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Category
SEO tools
Purpose
SEO tool
robots.txt
Follows robots.txt
Verification
Cannot be verified

If you block it

This SEO tool stops collecting data about your site. Your rankings are not affected.

Check a visit is real

  • No published way to check it. A request using this name is only a claim.

Where this comes from

The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs.

Registry version 2026-10-29.1

See which of these crawlers visit your site.

Crawl Analytics reads your own server and CDN logs and checks each claim against the operator’s published IP ranges and DNS.