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User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Disallow: /
| robots.txt token | Screaming Frog SEO Spider |
| User-agent contains | Screaming Frog SEO Spider |
| Operator | Screaming Frog |
| Category | Tools and frameworks |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| Verify by | no published verification method |
Not an operator: desktop crawling software that anybody can point at any site. The default user-agent identifies the tool, not who is running it, and the operator of the moment is whoever pressed start.
You block a consultant auditing your own site as often as you block a stranger. Treat it as a rate-limit question, not a consent one — and note that the user-agent is configurable, so a block is advisory.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider/21.0
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Allow: /
Operator documentation: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-agent/
Machine copies: json ·
markdown
Policies that name this crawler:
allow-all · maximum-ai-visibility