Cloud Overview
What squirrelscan cloud adds on top of free local audits
Local audits are free and unlimited, forever. The cloud exists to do only what your machine can’t:
- AI analysis - page classification, site profile detection, parsability scoring, authority assessment
- Browser rendering - audit JavaScript-heavy sites with a real headless browser
- Shared data - full adblock/privacy filter lists, a global dead-link cache, search demand data
- Publishing & teams - publish reports, track issues over time, share with your team in the dashboard
Cloud features are priced in credits. Every account gets 500 free credits every month - no card required.
Getting started
squirrel auth login
That’s it. Your next squirrel audit automatically includes the cloud rules - results merge into the same report alongside the local rules.
squirrel credits # check your balance and pricing
How cloud rules behave
- Logged in - cloud rules run as part of the audit. Calls are batched during a dedicated cloud phase, and spend is shown in the audit summary.
- Logged out - cloud rules report
skippedwith a hint to log in. Your audit still completes; nothing fails. - Out of credits or service down - same thing: rules skip, the audit completes, you see a one-line warning.
You stay in control of spend with a per-audit credit cap and a confirmation prompt for larger runs. See Credits & Pricing.
What’s in the cloud
The audit rules powered by cloud services, and what each costs
How credits work, full pricing, and spend controls
Identify the CMS, framework, CDN, and analytics behind any site
Resolve a durable site profile - type, audience, identity, contacts, and domain age
An auto-generated exec summary of your audit - prose plus big-ticket items
Render JavaScript-heavy sites with a cloud headless browser
Re-audit your sites automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule
Per-seat pricing, pooled credits, and roles for multi-person orgs
Published reports, issue tracking, and billing at app.squirrelscan.com
Publishing reports
Publishing a report to the dashboard gives you a shareable URL plus issue history for the site. Publishing is included in the audit base charge, whatever the visibility. When you’re signed in and online this happens automatically (as unlisted) for every audit:
squirrel audit https://example.com
Opt out of a run with --no-publish, or turn it off for the project with [cloud] publish = false. See Reports for publishing details.
Privacy
Cloud analysis works on slim page summaries - URL, title, and a short text excerpt - never your full raw HTML. Third-party data providers are proxied through our API; your pages are never sent to them directly.