It can be frustrating and inconvenient if you are running a website crawl and there are an almost infinite amount of parameters that are also getting picked up. Sometimes you need to know what parameters are used, but sometimes you don't.
There is a simple and effective way to exclude these when crawling with Screaming Frog.
When setting up your crawl, go to the Exclude menu, which you can find under Configurations.
Once there, enter the following rule to exclude URLs with a ? from the crawl:
.*\?.*
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