Crawler doesn't discover the links in the main nav
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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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Hi Kate,
Thank you!
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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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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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