Automated Sprawl Reports¶
A Sprawl report is a comprehensive automated analysis of a website. Content Chimera crawls the site, analyzes the data, and produces a multi-section report with charts, screenshots, and written analysis — all generated automatically. Instead of spending hours building a report by hand, you get a ready-made starting point that covers the most important aspects of a site’s content.
What the Report Includes¶
A Sprawl report is built from the same data you would use to construct a manual report, but the system assembles it for you. A typical Sprawl report includes:
Site structure overview — How content is distributed across folders and subfolders, with charts showing where the bulk of pages live.
Content type distribution — A breakdown of the types of content found on the site (HTML pages, PDFs, images, etc.).
Page template analysis — Which page templates are used most frequently, helping identify patterns in how the site is built.
Key findings and recommendations — Written analysis highlighting notable patterns, potential issues, and areas worth investigating further.
Supporting charts and screenshots — Visual evidence backing up the written findings.
The report is assembled as a standard Content Chimera report, so you can edit it after generation — adding your own sections, removing components that aren’t relevant, or refining the written analysis.
How to Generate a Sprawl Report¶
Sprawl reports are currently available through the MCP interface. The pipeline crawls the site, processes the data, and generates the report in one end-to-end run.
MCP
Ask your AI assistant to generate a Sprawl report:
“Run a Sprawl report for https://example.com”
If the site has already been crawled and you want to regenerate the report without re-crawling:
“Re-run the Sprawl report for this extent, skip the crawl”
Your AI assistant will show a confirmation prompt before proceeding, because the pipeline includes LLM analysis which has an associated cost.
Tool reference
Tool: run-long-pipeline with pipeline: "sprawl"
Important
The Sprawl pipeline requires confirmation before it begins. This is because the pipeline includes AI-powered analysis steps that incur cost. The confirmation prompt tells you what will happen so you can decide whether to proceed.
What to Expect¶
The Sprawl pipeline runs through several stages:
Crawl — The site is crawled to gather all pages and their content.
Process — Pages are enhanced with extracted metadata (folders, file types, etc.) and the data is optimized for analysis.
Analyze — The graph database and semantic database are loaded, and the crawl is summarized.
Generate report — Charts are created, written analysis is produced, and everything is assembled into a report.
For a moderately-sized site, this process can take anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour depending on the number of pages.
You can track progress at any time using the job status.
MCP
Ask your AI assistant to check on progress:
“What’s the status of my Sprawl report?”
Tool reference
Tool: job-status with the job_chain_id returned when the pipeline started.
When the pipeline completes, the report appears in the Reports section of your extent. From there you can view it, edit it, present it, or print it to PDF.
