Trigger website audits programmatically, retrieve technical health scores and issue details, and feed the results into reports, outreach workflows, or AI agents that act on the findings.
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Overview
Technical SEO audits are a routine part of managing websites, whether for clients, prospects, or internal properties. But running them manually means logging into a tool, starting a crawl, waiting for results, and exporting findings. When audits feed into a larger workflow, such as prospect outreach, client reporting, or automated optimization, the manual process becomes a bottleneck.
The SE Ranking API makes audits a programmable step. Trigger a crawl, retrieve the health score and issue details, and feed the results directly into reports, outreach emails, dashboards, or AI agents that act on the findings, without touching the UI.
Who is this for
Agencies that need to run audits across dozens of client or prospect sites on a schedule, feeding results into reports or outreach sequences.
Product teams embedding site health scoring or technical recommendations inside their own platform.
Teams building AI agents that read audit findings and apply fixes directly.
What teams are building and why
Scan prospect websites at scale and deliver branded audit reports automatically.
Scan prospect websites in batch, extract the health score and top issues, and deliver branded PDF reports through a CRM sequence. Teams using this for pre-sales find that walking into a conversation with a site-specific audit converts better than a generic pitch because the prospect sees data about their own site they have not seen before.
Feed audit results to an AI agent that generates or applies fixes.
Feed audit results to an AI model that reads the issue list and generates or applies fixes directly, then re-runs the audit to validate the changes worked. Teams building this report that the investigation step, where someone reads each issue and determines the fix, is the most time-consuming part. Passing it to an AI agent eliminates that bottleneck.
Run audits behind a product interface so users see recommendations without knowing where the data comes from.
Run audits behind a product interface so end users see optimization recommendations or automatic content improvements without knowing where the data comes from. SaaS teams embedding this add site health as a product feature alongside keyword and backlink data, giving their users a complete picture.
Combine audit data with other signals into a comprehensive assessment.
Combine technical audit data with keyword research, backlink metrics, and AI search visibility into a single multi-signal report that goes beyond what a standard crawl covers. Teams offering digital assessments use this to differentiate from competitors who only provide basic technical audits.
Data used in this workflow
- Site health score — overall technical health percentage based on errors, warnings, and notices found during the crawl. Used to generate site health summaries for reports, dashboards, and outreach materials.
- Page-level issue data — specific issues found on each crawled URL, categorized by type and severity. Used to feed AI auto-fix workflows and generate prioritized issue reports.
- Crawled page data— all URLs discovered during the audit, with per-page metrics. Used to identify affected pages and scope the technical work needed.
Resources
Explore the API documentation and quickstart guide to understand available endpoints, integration patterns, and how to get started quickly.
Get Started
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