screaming-frog-mcp

MCP server to analyze Screaming Frog SEO Spider crawl files directly from an AI agent. No credentials — it only needs the path to a saved crawl file.

Purpose

Reads Screaming Frog crawl exports (.dbseospider, .seospider, .duckdb, or a folder of exported CSVs) without manually exporting anything. Built on top of Screaming Frog's ~628 pre-computed report tabs, so counts are instant even on 100K+ URL crawls — nothing gets loaded fully into memory unless you explicitly sample or export it.

Related MCP server: Screaming Frog MCP Server

Requirements

• Screaming Frog SEO Spider installed

• Java 8+ available (java -version)

• Python package screamingfrog (pip install screamingfrog)

Tools (11)

sf_get_issue/sf_export accept either a friendly alias (sin_titulo, errores_4xx, h1_missing...) or the exact Screaming Frog tab name — use sf_list_tabs to discover what's available in your crawl.

Workflow

1. Open Screaming Frog and crawl the site.

2. File → Save Crawl → save as .seospider anywhere on disk.

3. Point the agent at it:

   "Run a full audit on /path/to/crawl-2026-08.seospider"

Supported file formats

Setup

No credentials needed.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "screaming-frog": {
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/bin/python3",
      "args": ["/path/to/screaming-frog-mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Security

• Every tool carries MCP Tool Annotations, and every single one is marked readOnlyHint=true — this server only reads a local crawl file, it never writes to it or to anything else.

• Bad input (missing crawl file, invalid SQL) raises an exception and surfaces as a real MCP protocol error (isError=true). A couple of read helpers return None or an empty list instead when an optional report tab simply isn't present in a given crawl — Screaming Frog can generate ~628 possible tabs, but not every crawl includes every one of them, so a missing tab isn't treated as a failure.

Notes

• First load of a .seospider file can take 30–60s (converts Derby → DuckDB internally). Subsequent loads of the same file are fast thanks to the on-disk .duckdb cache.

• Results are capped (100–500 rows depending on the tool) to avoid flooding the agent's context — use sf_export when you need the full list.

• If you have a JDK 21 installed at ~/.local/jdk21, it's picked up automatically via JAVA_HOME.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.