The sitemap npm package is a powerful tool for generating XML sitemaps for your website. It helps search engines like Google to better understand the structure of your site and improve its indexing. The package supports various features such as creating sitemaps, adding URLs, and generating sitemap indices.
Creating a Sitemap
This feature allows you to create a basic sitemap with a few URLs. The SitemapStream class is used to create a stream, and URLs are added using the write method. Finally, the stream is ended and written to a file.
const { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap');
const { createWriteStream } = require('fs');
const sitemap = new SitemapStream({ hostname: 'https://example.com' });
const writeStream = createWriteStream('./sitemap.xml');
sitemap.pipe(writeStream);
sitemap.write({ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily', priority: 0.8 });
sitemap.write({ url: '/page-2/', changefreq: 'weekly', priority: 0.5 });
sitemap.end();
streamToPromise(writeStream).then(() => console.log('Sitemap created successfully.'));Adding URLs Dynamically
This feature demonstrates how to add URLs to the sitemap dynamically from an array. This is useful when you have a list of URLs that you want to include in your sitemap.
const { SitemapStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap');
const { createWriteStream } = require('fs');
const sitemap = new SitemapStream({ hostname: 'https://example.com' });
const writeStream = createWriteStream('./sitemap.xml');
sitemap.pipe(writeStream);
const urls = [
{ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily', priority: 0.8 },
{ url: '/page-2/', changefreq: 'weekly', priority: 0.5 }
];
urls.forEach(url => sitemap.write(url));
sitemap.end();
streamToPromise(writeStream).then(() => console.log('Sitemap created successfully.'));Generating a Sitemap Index
This feature allows you to create a sitemap index, which is useful for large websites that have multiple sitemaps. The SitemapIndexStream class is used to create the index, and individual sitemaps are added using the write method.
const { SitemapIndexStream, streamToPromise } = require('sitemap');
const { createWriteStream } = require('fs');
const sitemapIndex = new SitemapIndexStream();
const writeStream = createWriteStream('./sitemap-index.xml');
sitemapIndex.pipe(writeStream);
sitemapIndex.write({ url: 'https://example.com/sitemap-1.xml', lastmod: '2023-01-01' });
sitemapIndex.write({ url: 'https://example.com/sitemap-2.xml', lastmod: '2023-01-02' });
sitemapIndex.end();
streamToPromise(writeStream).then(() => console.log('Sitemap index created successfully.'));The sitemap-generator package is another tool for creating sitemaps. It is a bit simpler and more straightforward compared to sitemap. It crawls your website and automatically generates a sitemap based on the discovered URLs. This package is useful if you prefer an automated approach to sitemap generation.
The xmlbuilder package is a general-purpose XML builder that can be used to create sitemaps among other XML documents. It provides a more manual approach compared to sitemap, giving you full control over the XML structure. This package is suitable if you need to generate custom XML documents beyond just sitemaps.
The sitemap-xml package is a lightweight alternative for generating sitemaps. It offers basic functionality for creating sitemaps and adding URLs. It is less feature-rich compared to sitemap but can be a good choice for simpler use cases.
sitemap is a high-level streaming sitemap-generating library/CLI that makes creating sitemap XML files easy. What is a sitemap?
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.
npx sitemap < listofurls.txt # `npx sitemap -h` for more examples and a list of options.
For programmatic one time generation of a sitemap try:
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.
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.
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')
),
// or (only works with node 10.17 and up)
sourceData: [{ url: '/page-1/', changefreq: 'daily'}, ...],
// or
sourceData: './your-data.json.txt',
}).then(() => {
// Do follow up actions
})
Want to customize that?
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) // available as of node 10.17.0
// or
arrayOfSitemapItems.forEach(item => sms.write(item))
sms.end() // necessary to let it know you've got nothing else to write
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](./api.md#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.
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