Screaming Frog SEO Spider versions

Extracts and exports SEO information from websites
Nov 13, 2023
Sep 4, 2023
Mar 5, 2022
Review
Aug 8, 2020
Review
Feb 17, 2020
Review
Dec 6, 2019
Review
Jun 7, 2019
Review
Mar 11, 2019
Review
9.4
Jun 15, 2018
Review
9.2
Apr 2, 2018
Review
8.3
Nov 15, 2017
Editorial review
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8.2
Oct 30, 2017
Review
7.2
Feb 5, 2017
Review
6.2
Aug 18, 2016
Review
5.1
Oct 29, 2015
Review
5.0
Sep 8, 2015
Review
4.1
Jul 16, 2015
4.0
Jul 9, 2015
Review
3.3
Mar 24, 2015
3.2
Mar 4, 2015
3.0
Feb 11, 2015
2.5
Jul 2, 2014
Review
1.4
Apr 25, 2011
Review

What's new

v16.7 [Mar 5, 2022]
Bug fixes.

v13.2 [Aug 8, 2020]
Bug fixes.

v12.6 [Feb 17, 2020]
Keywords, traffic, and value data, which is now available courtesy of the Ahrefs API.

v12.3 [Dec 6, 2019]
Bug fixes.

v11.3 [Jun 7, 2019]
- Added relative URL support for robots.txt redirects.
- Fix crash importing crawl file as a configuration file.
- Fix crash when clearing config in SERP mode
- Fix crash loading in configuration to perform JavaScript crawling on a platform that doesn’t support it.
- Fix crash creating images sitemap.
- Fix crash in right click remove in database mode.
- Fix crash in scheduling when editing tasks on Windows.
- Fix issue with Sitemap Hreflang data not being attached when uploading a sitemap in List mode.
- Fix configuration window too tall for small screens.
- Fix broken FDD HTML export.
- Fix unable to read sitemap with BOM when in Spider mode.

v9.4 [Jun 15, 2018]
Bug fixes.

v8.3 [Nov 15, 2017]
Fixed issue with JavaScript rendering reporting “Rendering Failed”.
Fixed issue preventing Mac version starting on case sensitive file systems.
Fixed issue preventing Mac version starting for users with a space in the path to their home directory.
Fixed a parse error with Xpath Custom Extraction.
Fixed an empty export when right clicking and ‘Export -> URL Info/ InLinks / OutLinks’
We stopped reporting empty meta refreshes.

v8.2 [Oct 30, 2017]
- Allow restoring of Majestic, AHREFs and Moz API data.
- Sped up remove/re-spider URLs, which were much slower in the update.
- Restored the ‘copy pretty/ugly url options’ for AJAX URLs.
- Add ‘Open URL in Browser’, to multi select options in tree view.
- Ensure file extension is always present when exporting/saving.
- Show file type drop down on Mac when saving/exporting.
- Redirect chains report now shows JavaScript redirects.
- Windows installer now supports hi resolution displays.
- Insecure content report now includes HTTP-> HTTPS redirects.
- List mode is now limited to 500 URLs without a licence, like regular Spider mode.
- Fix a JavaScript crawling crash.
- Fix bug with duplicate custom extraction names causing incorrect exporting.
- Fix various bugs in forms based authentication.
- Fix issue with Windows XP start-up.
- Fix Ubuntu package warnings.
- Fix saving/restoring of screenshots.
- Fix a Majestic API crash.
- Fix a bug where double clicking an .seospider file on Mac didn’t load the file.
- Fix an issue with lower window loosing sort, when clicking URLs in the master view.

v7.2 [Feb 5, 2017]
Prevent printing when using JavaScript rendering.
Prevent playing of audio when using JavaScript rendering.
Basic High DPI support for Linux (Configuration > User Interface > ‘Enable GTK Windows Look and Feel’).
Fix issue with SERP panel truncating.
Fix crash in hreflang processing.
Fix unable to start on 32-bit Linux.
Fix crash in tree view when moving columns.
Fix hreflang ‘missing confirmation links’ filter not checking external URLs.
Fix status code of ‘illegal cookie’.
Fix crash when going to ‘Configuration > API Access > Google Analytics’.
Fix crash when sorting on the redirect column.
Fix crash in custom extraction.
Fix ‘Enable Rendered Page Screen Shots’ setting not saving.
Fix ‘Inconsistent Language Confirmation Links’ report, reporting the wrong ‘Actual Language’.
Fix: NullPointerException when saving a crawl.

v5.0 [Sep 8, 2015]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

v4.0 [Jul 9, 2015]
Google Analytics Integration
The new ‘custom extraction’ feature allows you to collect any data from the HTML of a URL.
Added additional Headings.

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