sitemap_grabber

Sitemap Utility Suite

A Python-based utility suite designed to fetch and analyze sitemaps and other well-known files from websites.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Components
• Contributing
• License

Features

• Fetch and parse XML sitemaps from websites
• Recursively traverse sitemap indices
• Extract sitemap URLs from robots.txt files
• Fetch common well-known files (robots.txt, humans.txt, security.txt)
• Robust error handling and logging
• User-agent spoofing for web requests

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Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/sitemap-utility-suite.git
   cd sitemap-utility-suite
   

2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Installation with documentation dependencies

To install Sitemap Grabber with documentation dependencies:

1. Ensure you have flit installed:

   pip install flit
   

2. Install the package with documentation dependencies:

   flit install --deps develop --extras docs
   

For developers who want to contribute to the project:

1. Install the package with both documentation and development dependencies:

   flit install --deps develop --extras "docs,dev"
   

Alternatively, if you prefer using pip:

pip install -e ".[docs,dev]"

This will install the package in editable mode along with all necessary dependencies for building the documentation and development tools.

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Usage

Here's a basic example of how to use the SitemapGrabber:

from sitemap_grabber import SitemapGrabber

# Initialize the SitemapGrabber with a website URL
grabber = SitemapGrabber("https://example.com")

# Fetch all sitemaps
grabber.get_all_sitemaps()

# Print the discovered sitemap URLs
for url in grabber.sitemap_urls:
    print(url)

To fetch well-known files:

from well_known_files import WellKnownFiles

# Initialize the WellKnownFiles with a website URL
wkf = WellKnownFiles("https://example.com")

# Fetch robots.txt
robots_txt = wkf.fetch("robots.txt")
print(robots_txt)

# Fetch security.txt
security_txt = wkf.fetch("security.txt")
print(security_txt)

Components

SitemapGrabber

The SitemapGrabber class is responsible for discovering and fetching XML sitemaps from a given website. It can:

• Extract sitemap URLs from robots.txt
• Check common sitemap locations
• Recursively traverse sitemap indices
• Handle relative and absolute URLs

WellKnownFiles

The WellKnownFiles class fetches common well-known files from websites, including:

• robots.txt
• humans.txt
• security.txt

It includes caching to avoid redundant requests and can handle various edge cases in HTTP responses.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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For more information or to report issues, please visit the GitHub repository.