Shared crawler
A Screaming Frog alternative for teams, not laptops
Most SEOs know Screaming Frog. Crawle solves the part desktop crawlers were not built for: shared crawl data, continuous monitoring, team access, and history.
We all know why technical SEOs use Screaming Frog every day.
The gap appears when a team needs shared crawl data, real-time alerts, and a crawl history that is not tied to one machine.
Crawle keeps crawl state in a shared cloud workspace with Slack, Teams, email, exports, and connector-based MCP access.
Shared crawler workspace
screaming frog alternative
Where a shared cloud crawler changes the workflow
The local crawl problem
Desktop crawlers are built around one person running one crawl on one machine. Scheduled crawls and emailed reports help, but the crawl still needs to finish before the team has usable data.
Crawl files and exports can end up on laptops, shared drives, or inboxes, making the latest source of truth unclear.
A teammate cannot inspect the same live crawl state unless someone shares a file, report, or running setup.
If the computer hosting the crawler is not running, scheduled crawls, local MCP access, and follow-up analysis stop with it.
One crawl state for the whole team
Crawle turns crawl data into a shared workspace. Everyone with access sees the same URL inventory, issue groups, crawl progress, exports, and historical changes.
Workspaces, clients, tags, and roles keep agency portfolios organized.
Dashboards, incidents, links, URLs, and exports are available anytime, even while crawling continues.
OAuth MCP lets approved AI agents inspect the same live crawl data your team sees without maintaining a desktop host.
Alerts before the next report
Scheduled reports are useful, but they are not the same as real-time monitoring. Crawle keeps checking the site, records meaningful changes, and routes alerts or daily digests when something changes.
Continuous queues keep discovered URLs moving through crawl coverage.
Slack, Teams, and email alerts catch indexability, redirect, status-code, link, metadata, and rendering regressions.
Historical exports and weekly summaries show what changed, resolved, or still needs action.
Comparison
Honest differences matter more than feature checklists
Shared cloud crawl state for teams, agencies, clients, and AI agents
Desktop crawls, scheduled jobs, and reports tied to a local setup
Everyone works from the same URLs, issues, history, and exports
Teams pass around crawl files, screenshots, or CSV exports
Continuous crawl queues, incidents, daily digests, Slack, Teams, and email
Scheduled reports by email, but no native real-time Slack or Teams alert flow
Export the current dataset whenever you need it, even between crawl cycles
Exports depend on the crawl state available in the desktop workflow
Add the Crawle connector and use cloud-hosted crawl data
Available, but you maintain the local setup and keep the host running
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Keep the desktop crawler. Add a shared monitoring layer.
Crawle is for the workflows that need shared state, alerts, history, exports, and agent access between one-off crawls.
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