Open-source SEO Research tools

The best open-source SEO Research tools, curated: 15 in the registry, including BrightBean Studio, crowd.dev, Fediwall. Every tool is open-source; each entry lists license, self-hostability, and links.

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• BrightBean Studio — tool, 2026-09-03
  Unified inbox+sentiment; influencer discovery has NO OSS
• crowd.dev — tool, 2026-09-03
  Community CDP; Orbit/Common Room alt; LF-owned
• Fediwall — tool, 2026-09-03
  Only UGC-curation dashboard; Fediverse-only
• FreeCrawl — tool, 2026-09-03
  Deepest internal-linking; desktop; pre-1.0
• googlemaps (google-maps-services-python) — tool, 2026-09-03
  ~5000 stars; complements google-maps-scraper (unofficial fallback); Official Google Maps Platform Python client (Geocoding, Places, Directions, Distance Matrix). Auth via API key. Sanctioned; no ToS risk; billed per request.
• LimeSurvey — tool, 2026-09-03
  Mature; purest OSI; aging PHP
• Media Cloud — tool, 2026-09-03
  Large-scale news monitoring; research-grade
• osmnx — tool, 2026-09-03
  ~5800 stars; complements python-overpy (raw Overpass), yelpapi; Open-data OSM tooling over the public Overpass/Nominatim APIs. Open protocol/open data (ODbL) — no ToS/ban risk; respect Overpass usage policy.
• SEOnaut — tool, 2026-09-03
  Web-app dashboard; forkable to SaaS
• SerpBear — tool, 2026-09-03
  Focused rank tracker; free Search Console
• SiteOne Crawler — tool, 2026-09-03
  Rust; CI gates; backlink slice has NO OSS (data moat)
• trackthenews — tool, 2026-09-03
  Media monitoring; PR distribution/journalist-DB has NO OSS
• OpenSEO — tool, 2026-08-29
  Self-hostable, open-source alternative to Semrush/Ahrefs: keyword research, rank tracking, backlinks, and site audits, with a first-class MCP + AI-skills surface. Bring your own DataForSEO key; no forced subscription.
• advertools — tool, 2026-08-25
  Python productivity toolkit for online marketing: SEO crawling, SERP analysis, keyword/SEM tools, robots.txt & sitemap parsing, log-file and search-marketing analysis.
• GPT Researcher — tool, 2026-08-25
  Autonomous research agent that produces cited, multi-source reports from web and local documents — useful for market, competitor, and category research and content briefs. MCP integration included.