Crawl multiple pages of a website starting from a URL. Discovers internal links and analyzes each page. Returns: - Aggregated statistics (pages with titles, meta descriptions, schema, etc.) - Page type classification (job detail, category landing, location pages, etc.) - Duplicate detection (titl...
AI agents call crawl_site to retrieve information from SEO Audit MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
crawl_site is a passive reconnaissance and analysis tool that fetches and examines page content, metadata, and structure. It discovers internal links and generates reports but does not create, modify, delete, or execute code on the target website. The mention of 'Respects crawl limits and delays' further confirms it operates as a read-only crawler.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Crawl[s] multiple pages of a website' and 'Discovers internal links and analyzes each page,' with returns including 'Aggregated statistics,' 'Page type classification,' and 'individual page analyses.' The tool retrieves and queries…
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Crawl multiple pages of a website starting from a URL. Discovers internal links and analyzes each page. Returns: - Aggregated statistics (pages with titles, meta descriptions, schema, etc.) - Page type classification (job detail, category landing, location pages, etc.) - Duplicate detection (titles, descriptions) - Critical issues and warnings - All individual page analyses Use this for comprehensive site audits. Respects crawl limits and delays. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SEO Audit MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the SEO Audit MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for crawl_site: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches SEO Audit MCP Server. Nothing to install.
crawl_site is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the crawl_site rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for crawl_site. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
crawl_site is provided by the SEO Audit MCP Server MCP server (richarddillman/seo-audit-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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