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Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP Server (headless) for VS Code

io.github.bzsasson/screaming-frog-mcp

Headless Screaming Frog SEO Spider via its CLI: run crawls, export and filter data, no GUI needed.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP Server (headless) in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sf-cli-path",
      "description": "SF_CLI_PATH",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "screaming-frog-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "screaming-frog-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SF_CLI_PATH": "${input:sf-cli-path}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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