🔎 SEO Lens

A free, open-source SEO crawler and site audit tool. It crawls up to 10,000 URLs per run and gives you a health dashboard, an Excel report and a site architecture map. It runs on your own computer, so there's no account, no subscription and no tracking.

Made by Supriyo Mallick for SEOs, freelancers and small teams who can't justify a paid crawler licence.

Install

You need Python 3.10 or newer.

pipx install seolens
seolens

The app opens in your browser at http://localhost:8501. (pip install seolens works too.)

Optional JavaScript rendering, for sites built with React, Vue and similar frameworks:

pipx install "seolens[js]"
playwright install chromium

JavaScript rendering uses Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome if one is installed, and Chromium otherwise.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/growthlab-supriyo/seolens && cd seolens
pip install -e ".[dev]"
seolens

What it checks

Dashboard tabs: Overview (health score, crawled-pages breakdown, errors, warnings and notices, thematic scores, top issues, click depth), Issues, All pages (filter and export CSV), Response codes, Blocked & failed, Broken links and Site health. The Excel report has the same data plus a Summary sheet with quick wins.

Fast, and polite

• Adaptive speed (AIMD). It starts at 10 pages at a time on Medium. It speeds up while the site answers quickly and slows down gradually only when the site stays slow. A few slow pages don't change anything.
• When a site says it is overloaded (HTTP 429 or 503), the crawler halves its speed and waits for the Retry-After time the site asks for.
• It follows robots.txt, including Crawl-delay.
• Pause and resume. Every queued URL and crawled page is saved to SQLite as the crawl runs. You can pause a crawl, close the app, and resume it later. Finish now builds the report from the pages crawled so far.

Honest crawling: what it does with Cloudflare and firewalls

SEO Lens does not bypass Cloudflare, CAPTCHAs or other bot protection, and it never disguises itself as a person's browser. It sends SEOLens/<version> in its User-Agent so site owners can see who is crawling them. What it does instead:

• Detects and labels each blocked page: Cloudflare challenge, bot check or CAPTCHA, 403, rate limiting (429), server busy (503), timeouts and connection errors. Blocked pages appear in the Blocked & failed tab and the Excel summary, never silently missing, so an incomplete crawl can't pass for a complete audit.
• Doesn't hammer a blocked page. A challenge page is not retried. A 403 is retried once, and only if the site was serving pages normally until then.
• Authorized access for sites you own. In Cloudflare, add a WAF custom rule that skips security checks for a secret request header (or for the SEOLens User-Agent). Then add that header under Authorized access in the app. HTTP Basic login is supported too. Credentials are sent only to the site being audited, never to external links, images or redirects to other hosts. They are stored in the local database on your computer.

Command line

seolens crawl example.com --max 2000 --speed Medium --render off
seolens crawl --list urls.txt

Where your data lives

The database and reports are stored in ~/.seolens/ (C:\Users\<you>\.seolens\ on Windows). To use another folder, set SEOLENS_HOME. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

Limits

• 10,000 URLs per crawl.
• Performance checks are signals from the HTML, not measured Core Web Vitals. PageSpeed Insights integration is planned.
• Word count is approximate on pages with a lot of interface text.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -q tests

The tests run a small local website with redirects, a 404, a slow page, a rate-limited page, a Cloudflare-style challenge and a protected page.

Public demo: set SEOLENS_DEMO=1 to cap crawls at 500 URLs and turn off JavaScript rendering (for example on Hugging Face Spaces).

MIT licence.