WooRank

Website reviews, crawling, keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and reporting

KINDA · partial replacement
price $89.99/mosubscription / year $1,079.88estimated build time multi-dayreplaced by 0 people

The visible SEO auditing loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. WooRank earns its keep through proprietary data, index, crawl scale, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.

Build verification: not recorded. How we judge buildability

What you give up

  • historical competitor datasets and support
  • fresh proprietary keyword, backlink, or ranking data
  • proprietary web and keyword indexes
  • fresh rank and clickstream data
  • large-scale crawling infrastructure

Why people still pay

WooRank: The dashboard is reproducible; the expensive part is continuously collecting, cleaning, storing, and defending a useful index of the web.

Your build guide

The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.

Before you start

  • Runtime and tools: Python, HTTP parsing, SQLite and optional Playwright for explicitly permitted rendered pages.
  • Before starting: A small authorized URL set, reviewed selectors or field schema and a user-approved crawl frequency; no proxy-evasion machinery.
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Python, HTTP parsing, SQLite and optional Playwright for explicitly permitted rendered pages
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Data design: Store CrawlScope, URL, FetchResult, PageSignal and Finding; each finding includes the observed page/time/evidence and failed fetches remain separate from absent markup.
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Setup: A small authorized URL set, reviewed selectors or field schema and a user-approved crawl frequency; no proxy-evasion machinery
engineering roadmap

Implementation plan

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Phase 1

Pin the working slice and create its example input: Audit an owned site's crawlable pages for status, metadata, internal links and selected rendered issues, then export an evidence-first prioritized report. Confirm setup: A small authorized URL set, reviewed selectors or field schema and a user-approved crawl frequency; no proxy-evasion machinery.

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Phase 2

Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store CrawlScope, URL, FetchResult, PageSignal and Finding; each finding includes the observed page/time/evidence and failed fetches remain separate from absent markup.

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Phase 3

Connect the working view to real saved state. Bound hosts, redirects, page count, body size and timeout. Reject private-network destinations throughout redirects, respect access restrictions and backoff, and distinguish extraction failure from a missing field.

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Phase 4

Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: Cap crawl scope and honor access restrictions. Start with technical/on-page checks; keyword rankings, backlinks and traffic estimates need real external data, not fabricated scores.

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Phase 5

Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Encounter a redirect loop, blocked page and duplicate title; show all three with their different causes and never score the blocked page as a complete successful audit. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.

the pro prompt
download AGENTS.md
Build the following focused alternative to WooRank. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service.

WORKING SLICE
Audit an owned site's crawlable pages for status, metadata, internal links and selected rendered issues, then export an evidence-first prioritized report.

SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE
Use Python, HTTP parsing, SQLite and optional Playwright for explicitly permitted rendered pages. Prerequisites: A small authorized URL set, reviewed selectors or field schema and a user-approved crawl frequency; no proxy-evasion machinery. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success.

DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS
Store CrawlScope, URL, FetchResult, PageSignal and Finding; each finding includes the observed page/time/evidence and failed fetches remain separate from absent markup.

IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT
Bound hosts, redirects, page count, body size and timeout. Reject private-network destinations throughout redirects, respect access restrictions and backoff, and distinguish extraction failure from a missing field. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content.

APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY
Cap crawl scope and honor access restrictions. Start with technical/on-page checks; keyword rankings, backlinks and traffic estimates need real external data, not fabricated scores.

ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO
Encounter a redirect loop, blocked page and duplicate title; show all three with their different causes and never score the blocked page as a complete successful audit. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested.

DELIVERY
Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product.

PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md
Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter), copy the prompt or copy or download AGENTS.md · generated from this app's build plan

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Alternatives to building your own

OpenSEOWebsite audits, rank tracking and competitor views in one container; polished client reporting is still on the road map.11kjul 2026open source↗CrawlSEOCrawls, rank snapshots, comparisons, alerts and exports; the dashboard is free, the setup is not effortless.507aug 2026open source↗SEO PanelReviews, rankings, backlinks and scheduled reports in a PHP dashboard that has survived several design eras.149jun 2026open source↗

all 3 free alternatives to WooRank →· no votes, no pay-to-list · just what's real

WooRank pricing

planmonthlyannual (per mo)what you get
pro$89.99/workspace$53.25/workspace1 website; 50 tracked keywords; 2,500 crawl pages/site; 2,500 API calls/month; 100 page reviews.
premium$199.99/workspace$133.25/workspace5 websites; 250 tracked keywords; 10,000 crawl pages/site; 5,000 API calls/month.
enterprise——Custom websites, users, keywords, crawl capacity, API calls, reporting, and support.Contact sales.

free tierno free tier (3-day trial only)

billingmonthly + annual; annual is billed upfront

hidden costsAdditional users, higher API volume, and expanded site/keyword limits require Enterprise or a custom quote; public overage unit rates are not shown.

pricing sources checked 2026-08-14 · pricing source ↗

Questions about WooRank

Can you build your own WooRank with AI?

Partly. The visible SEO auditing loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. WooRank earns its keep through proprietary data, index, crawl scale, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.

What does the WooRank build prompt cover?

The prompt starts with this scope: Audit an owned site's crawlable pages for status, metadata, internal links and selected rendered issues, then export an evidence-first prioritized report. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: historical competitor datasets and support; fresh proprietary keyword, backlink, or ranking data; proprietary web and keyword indexes. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.

How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?

Start with the WooRank prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.

How long will this WooRank project take?

The catalogue estimate is multi-day for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.

What would I give up by replacing WooRank?

historical competitor datasets and support; fresh proprietary keyword, backlink, or ranking data; proprietary web and keyword indexes; fresh rank and clickstream data; large-scale crawling infrastructure. WooRank: The dashboard is reproducible; the expensive part is continuously collecting, cleaning, storing, and defending a useful index of the web.

What price is this guide comparing against?

The recorded Pro plan is $89.99/mo (monthly), checked 2026-08-14. Check the linked pricing source before buying. Building your own also has hosting, API and maintenance costs; the recorded amount is not a guaranteed saving.

What can I use instead of building WooRank?

OpenSEO: Website audits, rank tracking and competitor views in one container; polished client reporting is still on the road map. CrawlSEO: Crawls, rank snapshots, comparisons, alerts and exports; the dashboard is free, the setup is not effortless. SEO Panel: Reviews, rankings, backlinks and scheduled reports in a PHP dashboard that has survived several design eras. Compare all listed options at https://howtovibecodeit.dev/woorank/alternatives. Check each option's license, hosting needs and feature limits.

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