best free crawler for small website?

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wizeman

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• Jan 31, 2019

• #1

please and thanks

 

Maxim Alston

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• Jan 31, 2019

• #2

Screaming Frog. Free for crawls up to 500 URLs.

 

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silentcrowd

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• Feb 1, 2019

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Compared to the frog there are better options out there.

Consider linkchecker. It's opensource, get it from wummel dot github dot io/linkchecker if you need an exe.
Otherwise just apt install linkchecker to use it from the command line.

 

SEO JOKER

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• Feb 1, 2019

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Many crawlers are out there. I think Screaming frog is the best crawler for small websites.

 

goodbood

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• Feb 1, 2019

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My vote goes to Screaming Frog it works like a charm !

 

Ailsa10

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• Feb 1, 2019

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CocoScan - provides 1000 free URLs to crawl

 

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signorm68

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• Feb 4, 2019

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Cheap VPS and httrack is my choice, maybe a bit advanced but nothing too much complicated.

 

Gogol

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• Feb 4, 2019

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Python and selenium. With a bit of technical knowledge (youtube has gazillions of tutorials in case you are interested) it's as easy as setting up your expensive, fancy crawler bot and more importantly; it is FREE and OPENSOURCE!!

 

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signorm68

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• Feb 4, 2019

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Gogol said:

Python and selenium. With a bit of technical knowledge (youtube has gazillions of tutorials in case you are interested) it's as easy as setting up your expensive, fancy crawler bot and more importantly; it is FREE and OPENSOURCE!!

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Yap, I agree with you, maybe that is only matter of taste Anycase I prefer Httrack because I am using it for years and it has some great "fine tuning" for advanced usage...