Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler tool commonly used for SEO analysis. By configuring proxies, you can use a proxy IP for website crawling. Follow the steps below to complete the proxy settings.

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1

Download Screaming Frog

Go to the Screaming Frog official websitearrow-up-right to download the version suitable for your operating system and complete the installation.

2

Open Proxy Settings

Launch Screaming Frog, click on the top-left menu FileSettingsProxy

3

Configure the Proxy

In the pop-up Proxy Server Settings window:

  1. Check Use a proxy server and Use proxy credentials.

  2. Fill in your proxy information, then click OK and restart:

  • Address: Enter the proxy host address

  • Port: Enter the proxy port

  • Username: Enter your proxy username

  • Password: Enter your proxy password

4

Verify the Proxy

  1. In the address bar at the top of the software, enter https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip.

  2. On the right side, select Exact URL mode.

  3. Click the Start button to begin crawling.

  4. After crawling is complete, click on https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip in the left list, and check the returned data below to confirm whether the displayed IP matches your proxy IP.


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