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Sitemap Finder

Discover all XML sitemaps for any website. Provide one or more URLs and the actor will systematically locate every sitemap by checking common file paths, parsing robots.txt, and scanning HTML content for sitemap references.

Features

• Multi-source discovery — checks 15+ common sitemap paths, robots.txt directives, and HTML <a> / <link> tags
• Batch processing — process multiple websites in a single run with configurable concurrency
• Recursive index traversal — follows sitemap index files to discover all nested child sitemaps
• Gzip support — handles .xml.gz compressed sitemaps automatically
• XML validation — verifies sitemaps contain valid XML and classifies them as index or urlset
• Rich metadata — reports URL count per sitemap, last modified date, discovery source, and validation status
• Pay-per-event pricing — only pay for what you use at $0.001 per URL lookup

Input

Example Input

{
"urls":["https://example.com","https://crawlee.dev"],
"findAll":true,
"followIndexes":true,
"verify":true,
"timeout":10,
"concurrency":3
}

Output

Results are stored in the default dataset. Each record represents a discovered sitemap:

{
"websiteUrl":"https://crawlee.dev",
"sitemapUrl":"https://crawlee.dev/sitemap.xml",
"type":"index",
"urlCount":4,
"lastModified":"2024-12-15T10:30:00Z",
"isValid":true,
"source":"common-location"
}

When no sitemaps are found for a URL, a single record is returned with sitemapUrl: null and an appropriate error message.

API Usage

Call the actor via the API and retrieve results from the default dataset:

curl"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~find-sitemap-from-url/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN"\
-X POST \
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"urls": ["https://example.com"]}'

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event (PPE) pricing:

You are charged once per input URL, regardless of how many sitemaps are discovered for that URL. There are no additional platform fees beyond the per-event charge.

Use Cases

• SEO auditing — verify sitemap coverage and freshness across your sites
• Web scraping — discover all available sitemaps before crawling to plan efficient scraping
• Site monitoring — track sitemap changes, URL counts, and last modified dates over time
• Competitor analysis — map out a competitor's site structure via their sitemaps
• Migration validation — confirm sitemaps are correctly set up after a site migration
• Content indexing — find all content endpoints for search engine optimization

Discovery Methods

The actor uses three complementary discovery strategies:

1. Common paths — checks 15+ well-known sitemap file locations (/sitemap.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, etc.)
2. robots.txt — parses Sitemap: directives from the site's robots.txt file
3. HTML scanning — searches the homepage HTML for <a> and <link> tags referencing sitemaps

When followIndexes is enabled, any discovered sitemap index is recursively expanded to reveal all child sitemaps.