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    • bbop33
      bbop33 last edited by

      Hi Moz Community,

      We have a headless ecom (Magento) client that I'm trying to crawl the site.  During the crawl, the tool (Screaming Frog) cannot discover the sub-category URLs in the main navigation when I start crawling via homepage.

      Similarly, when I start crawling with one of the sub-category page, it doesn't crawl any of the product URLs on the sub-category page itself.

      When I inspect product and sub-cat URLs through Search Console, they seem as indexed and if I view how Googlebot rendered the sub-category page, I can see the product URLs on the sub-cat page too.

      If you have any idea what's the issue with Screaming Frog and would like to help me out, I'd be so grateful!

      Thanks in advance

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      • katemorris
        katemorris last edited by

        Ah, I might know your problem. What is your site? We had this issue at my last company, had to do with crawling using JS. If you will send me the site, I can take a look.

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        • bbop33
          bbop33 @katemorris last edited by

          Hi Kate,

          Thank you for your time to respond! Is there any way that I can contact you directly?

          By the way, I've tried crawling after changing configurations as 'rendering Javascript' however, it still didn't discover product URLs.

          Thank you!

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          • katemorris
            katemorris @bbop33 last edited by

            Find me on twitter @katemorris and follow me. Tell me your name and I'll follow you and we can DM.

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            • bbop33
              bbop33 @katemorris last edited by

              Hi Kate,

              Thank you! 🙂 I followed you on Twitter, my user name is @curetuvana

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