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Screpy
Screpy is a cloud SEO platform from a small team that crawls a website you point it at for technical issues, then bundles in rank tracking, keyword research, backlink monitoring, Core Web Vitals tracking, and an AI article generator in the same dashboard. Everything runs against the specific site(s) you add — it doesn't maintain an independent index of the wider web.
Screpy bundles a per-site crawler with rank tracking, keyword research, and backlink checks whose underlying data source it doesn't disclose — each piece is a known, buildable pattern on its own, but wiring all of them into one scheduled multi-project dashboard is real, ongoing engineering, not a data moat.
What you lose building it yourself
- ✕One dashboard combining crawl audits, rank tracking, and backlink monitoring across projects
- ✕Scheduled uptime monitoring, down to every 1 minute on the top plan
- ✕A built-in AI article generator and reporting layer in the same workspace
Why people still pay
The crawler and rank checker are each a weekend build individually, but Screpy's actual product is running both continuously across many projects, layering in keyword research, backlink checks, uptime monitoring, and an AI article generator in one workspace — that combination is ongoing engineering, not a missing data source.
BUILD YOUR OWN · CRAWLER + RANK CHECKS (NOT THE FULL BUNDLE)
An AI coding tool can build a same-site crawler with an automated browser and a scheduled keyword-rank checker against a SERP-data API, each in about a weekend — the two building blocks under Screpy's audit and rank-tracker features. Wiring both into one dashboard with uptime monitoring, keyword research, backlink checks, and an AI article generator is a much larger, ongoing build.
StackPlaywright or Puppeteer for the site crawler · a SERP-data API (DataForSEO, SerpApi, or Serper) for rank checks and keyword research · a cron job or hosted scheduler for uptime checks · a small database for historical positions and crawl results · a hosted LLM API for the article generator.
Build two small Python scripts sharing one SQLite database. Script one: a Playwright crawler that, given a start URL, follows same-domain internal links up to 500 pages, renders JavaScript, and records status code, title, meta description, and broken links per page. Script two: given a list of up to 20 keywords, call a SERP-data API (DataForSEO, SerpApi, or Serper) once a day via cron, record your domain's position per keyword, and append it to the database. Output a single CSV combining the latest crawl issues and the last 7 days of rank changes.
Similar tools
Free alternative: SEOnaut — a self-hosted, open-source technical SEO crawler that covers on-page auditing for free; it doesn't touch Screpy's rank tracking, keyword research, backlink monitoring, uptime checks, or AI article generator
QUESTIONS
Where does Screpy's backlink and keyword data come from?
Screpy doesn't disclose whether backlink and organic-keyword numbers are self-crawled or licensed from a third-party data provider on its pricing or about pages — treat it as a bundled data feed with an undisclosed source, not a confirmed proprietary index.
Is there a free plan?
No permanent free tier — Screpy offers a 7-day free trial plus an advertised 60%-off new-account discount on its Pro, Max, and Ultra plans, which start at $6/month.
What does the built-in AI article generator actually do?
It drafts blog posts from inside the same dashboard, with usage capped by plan (1/day on Pro up to 50/day on Ultra) — a bundled writing feature, not a replacement for the audit and rank-tracking core of the product.