Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agents
https://github.com/spronta/crawlie
With AI, it's faster than ever to ship a marketing site... but most of what gets generated is slop that was never built to be found. Plus the tools meant to catch that fall short: most SEO auditors cost money, don't play nicely with your agents, or tell you what's wrong without telling you how to actually rank for SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization: being cited by AI search like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews).crawlie fixes that! It's 100% free, it's local-first, it's agent-native (MCP baked in!), and every issue it finds comes with why it matters and how to fix it.
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Honestly, the industry is half-torn on whether llms.txt does anything... we're in such a new world. But the same ol' SEO tricks still apply for AI engines for sure.
edit: in the docs, the command to install the npm package seems to be wrong (crawlie doesn't exist), it should be: npm i -g @spronta/crawlie
we're shipping fast, will break less things now though I promise ;)