Installation on Windows

Installation on Windows

These instructions were written using Windows 10 are valid for all recent versions of Windows.

Download the latest version of the SEO Spider. The downloaded file will be named ScreamingFrogSEOSpider-VERSION.exe. The file will most likely download to your Downloads directory which can easily be accessed via File Explorer. The download may pause at 100% complete while Windows performs a security scan.

Installation

The downloaded file is an executable that must be run to install the SEO Spider. Go to your Downloads folder in File Explorer, double click on the downloaded file, and you will see the following screen.

Click “Yes”, then, unless you’d like to install in anything other than the default location, choose ‘Next’ on the screen below.

You will then be asked if you would like a desktop shortcut which is selected by default. Click ‘Next’ again.

Now click ‘Install’ to start the installation.

The installation process will start, copying files required by the SEO Spider to your computer, when complete, you will see this screen.

Click ‘Finish’ to launch the SEO Spider.

Command Line Installation

You can also install silently via the command line as follows.

ScreamingFrogSEOSpider-VERSION.exe /VERYSILENT

By default this will install the SEO Spider to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Screaming Frog SEO Spider

You can choose an alternative location by using the following command:

ScreamingFrogSEOSpider-VERSION.exe /VERYSILENT /DIR=C:\My Folder

Troubleshooting

• “Error opening file for writing” – reboot your computer and retry the installation.

Uninstall

Click the Start icon in the bottom left of your screen and type ‘add’ to find ‘Add or remove programs’ in the Control panel.

Click the search box and enter “SEO” to find Screaming Frog SEO Spider in the list of app. Now click the three dots to the right and select “Uninstall” from the drop down.

During the uninstallation process you’ve be asked if you would like to delete all your crawls, setting and licence information.

Uninstall via the Command Line

You can perform a silent uninstall of the SEO Spider as follows:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Screaming Frog SEO Spider\unins000.exe" /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /VERYSILENT

Running the SEO Spider

The SEO Spider can be run one of two ways.

GUI

Click the Start icon in the bottom left of your screen, type “SEO Spider” to find it, then click on it to start,

Command Line

If you would like to run via the command line, please see our User Guide.