Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is assigned to the SEO category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

SEO tool crawlers build internal databases for tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, Sistrix or Majestic. They have no direct SEO impact — only the tool accesses the data. Crawl frequency grows with your domain authority.

Once Screaming Frog shows up in your logs, BotScope lets you analyze its crawl paths, status codes, IP distribution and temporal activity — by hour, day or week.

robots.txt directive for Screaming Frog

If you don't want Screaming Frog to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

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