Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb vs Scrapy: A Crawler Teardown for Automated SEO Pipelines
An automation-first comparison of Screaming Frog CLI, Sitebulb, and a custom Scrapy crawler for unattended technical SEO crawling pipelines.
An automation-first comparison of Screaming Frog CLI, Sitebulb, and a custom Scrapy crawler for unattended technical SEO crawling pipelines.
Treat a competitor’s programmatic SEO site as a black box and take it apart with Python: map the URL footprint from sitemaps, fingerprint the template, reconstruct the internal link graph, and estimate what actually ranks.
Pull p75 Core Web Vitals field data from the free CrUX API, detect regressions across your URLs, and fire Slack alerts with a self-hosted Python and n8n pipeline.
Stop losing rankings silently. A Python + n8n pipeline that pulls 16 months of GSC data, scores every URL for decay, and files refresh tickets weekly with a closed-loop verification step.
A teardown of an agentic SEO auditor built on Claude Code that crawls, diffs against history, and files engineering-ready GitHub issues — including architecture, the agent prompt that worked, and eight weeks of real ticket data.
A production-grade n8n + Python workflow that ingests raw server logs, verifies Googlebot via reverse DNS, computes the four metrics that matter, and posts a daily Slack digest.