We also made a few smaller updates which include – To auto start a crawl: screamingfrogseospider -crawl 2) Small Tweaks To open a saved crawl file: screamingfrogseospider /tmp/ospider To start normally: screamingfrogseospider The following commands are available from the command line: To auto start a crawl: open "/Applications/Screaming Frog SEO Spider.app" -args -crawl Linux To open a saved crawl file: open "/Applications/Screaming Frog SEO Spider.app" /tmp/ospider To start normally: open "/Applications/Screaming Frog SEO Spider.app" Open a terminal, found in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, or directly using spotlight and typing: ‘terminal’. To auto start a crawl: ScreamingFrogSEOSpider.exe -crawl MAC OS X To open a crawl file (Only available to licensed users): ScreamingFrogSEOSpider.exe C:\tmp\ospider To start normally: ScreamingFrogSEOSpider.exe Move into the SEO Spider directory: cd "C:\Program Files\Screaming Frog SEO Spider" Open a command prompt (Start button, then search programs and files for ‘Windows Command Processor’) Note: If your last used mode was not crawl, “Ignore robots.txt” and “Limit Search Depth” will be overwritten. This switches the spider to crawl mode if its not the last used mode and uses your default configuration for the crawl. Starts the spider and immediately triggers the crawl of the supplied domain. Supplying a single argument of a file path, tries to load that file in as a saved crawl. Supplying no arguments starts the application as normal. Please see our post How To Schedule A Crawl By Command Line In The SEO Spider for more information on scheduling a crawl. In the meantime, we have made a quick and easy update which allows you to start the SEO Spider and launch a crawl via the command line, which means you can now schedule a crawl. We are working on a scheduling feature and full command line option. Without further ado, version 2.55 includes the following – 1) Command Line Option To Start Crawls However, on this occassion we have decided to release a supporting post as version 2.55 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider includes a small feature update alongside a number of bug fixes, improved messaging & help for the user. I don’t usually write (a new) blog post for smaller intermediary updates which are mainly for bug fixes.
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