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Complete User Manual & Tutorials
Welcome to CheapCrawler
CheapCrawler is a native desktop technical SEO spider built for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows digital marketers, developers, and agency owners to crawl thousands of URLs, detect broken links and canonical issues, render client-side JavaScript SPAs, and generate instant AI metadata rewrites.
Installation & OS Permissions
Windows SmartScreen, macOS Gatekeeper approval, and Linux AppImage permissions.
Read Tutorial → Module 2Crawling Basics & Settings
Concurrency tuning, custom User-Agents, robots.txt directives, and regex URL filtering.
Read Tutorial → Module 3JavaScript SPA Crawling
Crawl modern React, Vue, Next.js, and Angular sites using the embedded Chromium 128 engine.
Read Tutorial → Module 4Local Ollama & Cloud AI Setup
Run 100% free offline AI models with Ollama, or connect wholesale Gemini/OpenAI API keys.
Read Tutorial → Module 5Auditing 404s, Redirects & Canonicals
Detect broken links, multi-hop redirect chains, canonical mismatch loops, and missing headings.
Read Tutorial → Module 6Sitemaps & Data Exports
Generate Google-compliant XML sitemaps and export formatted CSV and Excel spreadsheets.
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