🗺️ Maptrail
Crawl any site on your own machine and ship a clean sitemap.
Screaming Frog charges £199 a year, forever, for a crawler most people use to do one thing: audit a site and ship a sitemap. Maptrail does exactly that on your own machine — point it at a URL, crawl locally, and get a standards-compliant sitemap.xml, a human-readable HTML sitemap and a full CSV SEO report. $19, once. Your sitemap is not a subscription.
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Features
Local breadth-first crawler
Enter a URL and crawl the whole site from your machine with a live progress table — status, depth, title, meta length, H1, word count.
Depth, limit & pattern controls
Set max depth and page limit, plus include/exclude URL patterns (substrings or /regex/) to skip tag and sort pages.
Standards-compliant sitemap.xml
lastmod pulled from real Last-Modified headers, priority scaled by crawl depth.
Automatic 50k index chunking
Sites over 50,000 URLs split into numbered sitemaps plus a sitemap-index.xml, exactly per the sitemaps.org spec.
Full CSV SEO report
Every crawled page with status, title, meta, H1, word count, canonical and noindex — including the 404s the sitemap correctly leaves out, so you can fix them.
Local crawl history
Every crawl saved locally so you can reload, re-export or delete it — nothing leaves your disk.
Maptrail vs Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog at £199/yr (~$250/yr) runs roughly $250/year — $500 over two years. Maptrail is $19, once.
| Maptrail | Screaming Frog | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 once | £199/yr (~$250/yr) |
| Cost after 3 years | $19 | ~$750 |
| Sitemap.xml + 50k chunking | Yes | Yes |
| HTML sitemap | Yes | No |
| CSV crawl/SEO report | Yes | Yes |
| Free-tier URL cap | None — no tiers | 500 URLs |
| Account / license server | No | Yearly license key |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Pays for itself in under a month of a Screaming Frog license — and every year after is pure savings.
Three steps, no subscription
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $19 gets you the signed Windows installer, or clone the MIT source and build it yourself for free.
Point it at a URL
Enter your site, set depth and limits, hit crawl — everything runs locally on your machine.
Export your sitemap
Save sitemap.xml, the HTML sitemap and the CSV SEO report wherever you like, then ship them.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Maptrail is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/sitemap-generator. The $19 buys the signed Windows installer, 1-click setup and updates; building from source is free.
Does it do everything Screaming Frog does?
No, and we'd rather say so. Screaming Frog also does log-file analysis, JS rendering and integrations. If you need all that, buy it. If you need clean sitemaps and a crawl report, Maptrail does that for $19 once.
Does my crawl data get uploaded?
Never. Maptrail makes network requests only to the site you tell it to crawl — no telemetry, no update pings, no account. History lives in a local SQLite file.
What platforms does it run on?
The packaged installer is for Windows. The MIT source runs anywhere Electron does if you build it yourself.
Own Maptrail forever
$19 once. Signed installer, 1-click setup, updates included. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.