Screaming Frog: v24 Release with MCP, Auto-Compare, Mail-Notifications and more

Key Takeaways:

• Screaming Frog released version 24.0 of their crawler tool and they dropped a bomb with lots of incredible features:

  • Local MCP: integrate Screaming Frog crawls into your agentic workflows. Of course there need to be some improvements as you currently cannot control lots of important crawl settings AND cannot create crawl configs using the MCP - still, lots of opportunities analyzing crawl data with Claude

  • Auto-compare + Email notifications: You can now setup mail notifications for your scheduled crawls that provide you with a brief of changes versus the previous crawl + you can also attach report xlsx within a zip file

  • Token Usage: whenever you use JS based integration of LLMs following up with token usage across multiple LLMs - now you can see it directly in the tool

  • Check out further features here: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/blog/seo-spider-24/

Sources:

• https://x.com/screamingfrog/status/2056638582907904334

• https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/blog/seo-spider-24/

• https://x.com/carlos_darko/status/2056656476475637926

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mario-traeger_screaming-frog-seo-spider-240-ist-da-und-share-7462457526756868096-sF3w/

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-long-marketing_i-cant-contain-my-excitement-seos-theres-share-7462475244327342080-rouJ/