API INTEGRATIONS.

API integrations

In an SEO project it helps to have a complete view of all the data you can collect, so you can build a thorough analysis.

Screaming Frog lets you combine data from Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, Majestic, Ahrefs, Moz and AI models with the data from the crawl.

The integration downloads via API the data for every single URL you want to add to your analysis.

Setting up an integration

You need to set up the integration before starting the crawl. Let’s see how, using Google Search Console as an example.

1. Open API Access

From the main menu open 1Configuration›2API Access and choose the integration you want to connect, for example 1Configuration›2API Access›3Google Search Console.

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1ConfigurationThe configuration menu.2API AccessThe submenu with all the integrations.

2. Connect the account

In the Account Information tab click Sign in with Google to choose the account to connect, or pick an account that’s already connected.

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1Google Search ConsoleThe integration selected in API Access.2Account InformationThe tab for connecting the account.3Sign in with GoogleOpens the browser to authorise access.4Existing AccountsAccounts already connected, reusable with Connect.

3. Set the date range and filters

In the Search Analytics tab you can set a date range by choosing the start and end dates of the period you’re interested in.

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1Search AnalyticsThe performance data tab.2Date RangeThe period to analyse, the last 30 days by default.3Dimension FilterDevice, country, search type and query.4GeneralTrailing slash, case, results limit and new URLs to crawl.

You can filter the data by device (desktop, mobile and tablet), by country, by search type (Web, Image, Video, News, Discover and Google News) and by search query (“contains”, “does not contain” and so on). There’s also a “General” section where you can choose whether to match URLs with or without a trailing slash, upper and lower case, the maximum number of results, and whether to crawl new URLs found in Google Search Console.

4. Check the progress

You can confirm the connection works when the API bar, next to the crawl bar at the top right, reaches 100%.

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1CrawlCrawl progress.2API 100%API calls completed.

When the crawl is complete, every URL will also have Clicks, Impressions, CTR and Average Position from Google Search Console.