testedmedia/seo-command-center

SEO Command Center is a self-hosted SEO platform built to replace expensive subscription tools like Semrush or Ahrefs. Instead of paying a monthly seat fee, you connect it to DataForSEO, a pay-per-use API that provides the same kind of search engine data those bigger platforms are built on. The README reports a real deployment tracking 570 keywords across 5 sites, updated daily, plus weekly local map grids and brand checks, costing about $3.55 a month in API fees. The dashboard has eight sections. Rankings shows daily search positions with history charts and exports to CSV. Research surfaces keyword ideas from seed terms or a competitor's domain, including search volume and competition data. Site Explorer gives an Ahrefs style breakdown of any domain: backlinks, referring domains, traffic estimates, and content gaps compared to your own site. Competitors shows who outranks you and for which keywords. AI Visibility checks whether your pages get cited in Google's AI Overview answers. Site Health is a free technical crawler that flags broken links, duplicate titles, and thin content. Link Gap finds sites linking to your competitors but not to you. Map Grid tracks your local map-pack ranking from dozens of points around a city, similar to tools like Local Falcon. Under the hood, each report is a single Python file with no external dependencies, using only the Python standard library, and everything is stored in one SQLite file so your full ranking history stays on your own machine. There is no framework and no traditional backend server. You can run it entirely locally to browse read-only reports, or optionally deploy a hosted version through free Cloudflare Pages, which adds a login-protected dashboard where you can refresh reports and add keywords straight from the browser. Setup needs Python 3.9 or newer and a DataForSEO account for the paid data pulls, Cloudflare and Google Search Console integration are both optional. The project builds in cost controls too, capping how many manual refreshes and research pulls can run per day so a shared dashboard cannot unexpectedly rack up a large bill. It's released under the MIT license.