Sitemap-generating lib/cli
npm install sitemapsitemap is a high-level streaming sitemap-generating library/CLI that
makes creating sitemap XML files easy. What is a sitemap?
- Installation
- Generate a one time sitemap from a list of urls
- Example of using sitemap.js with express
- Generating more than one sitemap
- Options you can pass
- Examples
- API
- Maintainers
- License
``sh`
npm install --save sitemap
If you are just looking to take a giant list of URLs and turn it into some sitemaps, try out our CLI. The cli can also parse, update and validate existing sitemaps.
`shnpx sitemap -h
npx sitemap < listofurls.txt # for more examples and a list of options.`
For programmatic one time generation of a sitemap try:
`js
// ESM
import { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } from 'sitemap'
import { Readable } from 'stream'
// CommonJS
const { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap')
const { Readable } = require('stream')
// An array with your links
const links = [{ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily', priority: 0.3 }]
// Create a stream to write to
const stream = new SitemapStream( { hostname: 'https://...' } )
// Return a promise that resolves with your XML string
return streamToPromise(Readable.from(links).pipe(stream)).then((data) =>
data.toString()
)
`
Use this if you have less than 50 thousand urls. See SitemapAndIndexStream for if you have more.
`js
// ESM
import express from 'express'
import { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } from 'sitemap'
import { createGzip } from 'zlib'
import { Readable } from 'stream'
// CommonJS
const express = require('express')
const { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap')
const { createGzip } = require('zlib')
const { Readable } = require('stream')
const app = express()
let sitemap
app.get('/sitemap.xml', function(req, res) {
res.header('Content-Type', 'application/xml');
res.header('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
// if we have a cached entry send it
if (sitemap) {
res.send(sitemap)
return
}
try {
const smStream = new SitemapStream({ hostname: 'https://example.com/' })
const pipeline = smStream.pipe(createGzip())
// pipe your entries or directly write them.
smStream.write({ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily', priority: 0.3 })
smStream.write({ url: '/page-2/', changefreq: 'monthly', priority: 0.7 })
smStream.write({ url: '/page-3/'}) // changefreq: 'weekly', priority: 0.5
smStream.write({ url: '/page-4/', img: "http://urlTest.com" })
/* or use
Readable.from([{url: '/page-1'}...]).pipe(smStream)
if you are looking to avoid writing your own loop.
*/
// cache the response
streamToPromise(pipeline).then(sm => sitemap = sm)
// make sure to attach a write stream such as streamToPromise before ending
smStream.end()
// stream write the response
pipeline.pipe(res).on('error', (e) => {throw e})
} catch (e) {
console.error(e)
res.status(500).end()
}
})
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('listening')
});
`
If you know you are definitely going to have more than 50,000 urls in your sitemap, you can use this slightly more complex interface to create a new sitemap every 45,000 entries and add that file to a sitemap index.
`js
// ESM
import { createReadStream, createWriteStream } from 'fs'
import { resolve } from 'path'
import { createGzip } from 'zlib'
import { simpleSitemapAndIndex, lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions } from 'sitemap'
// CommonJS
const { createReadStream, createWriteStream } = require('fs')
const { resolve } = require('path')
const { createGzip } = require('zlib')
const {
simpleSitemapAndIndex,
lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions
} = require('sitemap')
// writes sitemaps and index out to the destination you provide.
simpleSitemapAndIndex({
hostname: 'https://example.com',
destinationDir: './',
sourceData: lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions(
createReadStream('./your-data.json.txt')
),
// sourceData can also be:
// sourceData: [{ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily'}, ...],
// or
// sourceData: './your-data.json.txt',
limit: 45000, // optional, default: 50000
gzip: true, // optional, default: true
publicBasePath: '/sitemaps/', // optional, default: './'
xslUrl: 'https://example.com/sitemap.xsl', // optional XSL stylesheet
}).then(() => {
// Do follow up actions
})
`
Want to customize that?
`js
// ESM
import { createReadStream, createWriteStream } from 'fs'
import { resolve } from 'path'
import { createGzip } from 'zlib'
import { Readable } from 'stream'
import { SitemapAndIndexStream, SitemapStream, lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions } from 'sitemap'
// CommonJS
const { createReadStream, createWriteStream } = require('fs')
const { resolve } = require('path')
const { createGzip } = require('zlib')
const { Readable } = require('stream')
const {
SitemapAndIndexStream,
SitemapStream,
lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions
} = require('sitemap')
const sms = new SitemapAndIndexStream({
limit: 50000, // defaults to 45k
lastmodDateOnly: false, // print date not time
// SitemapAndIndexStream will call this user provided function every time
// it needs to create a new sitemap file. You merely need to return a stream
// for it to write the sitemap urls to and the expected url where that sitemap will be hosted
getSitemapStream: (i) => {
const sitemapStream = new SitemapStream({ hostname: 'https://example.com' });
// if your server automatically serves sitemap.xml.gz when requesting sitemap.xml leave this line be
// otherwise you will need to add .gz here and remove it a couple lines below so that both the index
// and the actual file have a .gz extension
const path = ./sitemap-${i}.xml;
const ws = sitemapStream
.pipe(createGzip()) // compress the output of the sitemap
.pipe(createWriteStream(resolve(path + '.gz'))); // write it to sitemap-NUMBER.xml
return [new URL(path, 'https://example.com/subdir/').toString(), sitemapStream, ws];
},
});
// when reading from a file
lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions(
createReadStream('./your-data.json.txt')
)
.pipe(sms)
.pipe(createGzip())
.pipe(createWriteStream(resolve('./sitemap-index.xml.gz')));
// or reading straight from an in-memory array
sms
.pipe(createGzip())
.pipe(createWriteStream(resolve('./sitemap-index.xml.gz')));
const arrayOfSitemapItems = [{ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily'}, ...]
Readable.from(arrayOfSitemapItems).pipe(sms)
// or
arrayOfSitemapItems.forEach(item => sms.write(item))
sms.end() // necessary to let it know you've got nothing else to write
`
`js
// ESM
import { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } from 'sitemap'
// CommonJS
const { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap')
const smStream = new SitemapStream({
hostname: 'http://www.mywebsite.com',
xslUrl: "https://example.com/style.xsl",
lastmodDateOnly: false, // print date not time
xmlns: { // trim the xml namespace
news: true, // flip to false to omit the xml namespace for news
xhtml: true,
image: true,
video: true,
custom: [
'xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"',
'xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"',
],
}
})
// coalesce stream to value
// alternatively you can pipe to another stream
streamToPromise(smStream).then(console.log)
smStream.write({
url: '/page1',
changefreq: 'weekly',
priority: 0.8, // A hint to the crawler that it should prioritize this over items less than 0.8
})
// each sitemap entry supports many options
// See Sitemap Item Options below for details
smStream.write({
url: 'http://test.com/page-1/',
img: [
{
url: 'http://test.com/img1.jpg',
caption: 'An image',
title: 'The Title of Image One',
geoLocation: 'London, United Kingdom',
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
},
{
url: 'http://test.com/img2.jpg',
caption: 'Another image',
title: 'The Title of Image Two',
geoLocation: 'London, United Kingdom',
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
}
],
video: [
{
thumbnail_loc: 'http://test.com/tmbn1.jpg',
title: 'A video title',
description: 'This is a video'
},
{
thumbnail_loc: 'http://test.com/tmbn2.jpg',
title: 'A video with an attribute',
description: 'This is another video',
'player_loc': 'http://www.example.com/videoplayer.mp4?video=123',
'player_loc:autoplay': 'ap=1',
'player_loc:allow_embed': 'yes'
}
],
links: [
{ lang: 'en', url: 'http://test.com/page-1/' },
{ lang: 'ja', url: 'http://test.com/page-1/ja/' }
],
androidLink: 'android-app://com.company.test/page-1/',
news: {
publication: {
name: 'The Example Times',
language: 'en'
},
genres: 'PressRelease, Blog',
publication_date: '2008-12-23',
title: 'Companies A, B in Merger Talks',
keywords: 'business, merger, acquisition, A, B',
stock_tickers: 'NASDAQ:A, NASDAQ:B'
}
})
// indicate there is nothing left to write
smStream.end()
``
For more examples see the examples directory
Full API docs can be found here
See LICENSE file.