sitemapgen

SitemapGen

A Command line tool to let you easily create XML sitemaps from a website's URL

Installing

1. PIP: run pip install sitemapgen
2. Without PIP:
   1. Clone this repository by running:
      git clone https://github.com/Nalin-Angrish/SitemapGen.git
      Or download it as ZIP.
   2. cd into the downloaded directory by cd SitemapGen.
   3. Run python setup.py install.

Usage

CLI

1. After you have installed the library, fire up a Terminal/Command Prompt and type sitemapgen --help. This command will show you the description of the library and the available options for using the command.

SitemapGen v0.9.9 - By Nalin Angrish.
A general utility script for generating site XML sitemaps.  

Options:  
--version        | Show the tool version  
--help           | Show this message and exit.  
--url <url>      | Specify a website url to generate a sitemap from.   
--out <path>     | Specify an output file for the sitemap.   
--disguise <url> | Specify a disguise URL for use in the sitemap. Useful when you are creating sitemap for a local website before hosting it.  
     
  
When Running the command, you need to specify the '--url' and the '--out' parameters while the '--disguise' parameter is optional.   
Also, running the command with --version or --help will lead to the suppression of other parameters.  

1. To know the version of the tool, run sitemapgen --version

SitemapGen v0.9.9 - By Nalin Angrish.

1. To create a sitemap for a website, run sitemapgen --url <URL of website> --out <Path to output sitemap>. The URL specified here should not be blocked by a firewall and should be a complete URL. For example: localhost would not be valid and you would have to use http://localhost. If the output file specified does not exists, then it will be created. You can specify the output path as either a relative path to the current working directory or even an absolute path.
2. Sometimes, when you create a sitemap for a website in development, you need to use a different domain in the sitemaps than the development domain. For example, while developing, the --url would be specified as http://localhost:port whereas, in the sitemap you might need to use a domain like http://www.example.com. In such cases, you can provide another option to the command line arguments by adding: --disguise http://www.example.com. It is always prefered to use http instead of https to avoid any future issue with the SSL certificate installation. So, the tool will automatically use the http versions of the sites

Programatically

The library provides a Generator class that can be used to generate a sitemap of a given URL. This is an example of how to use the Generator class:

from sitemapgen import Generator          # Import the Generator class


generator = Generator(site="http://localhost", output="sitemap.xml", disguise="http://www.example.com") 		# Create a generator instance where:
   			# site = The site to generate a sitemap of. (required)
   			# output = The path of the output file. (required) If the sitemap is not be written to a file, just set it to an empty string.
   			# disguise = The url to disguise the sitemap for. (optional) 

urls = generator.discover()        # Discover all URLs possible from the "site" specified during initialization. 
   			# This function returns the URLs discovered but it's return value can also be ignored if the urls don't matter 
   			# (If they are ultimately going to be written to a file)
   			# Returns a list

sitemap = generator.genSitemap()   # Generate a String sitemap from the URLs discovered before. Should only be used after calling generator.discover()
   			# This function returns the generated sitemap but it's return value can also be ignored if the sitemap is just to be written to a file.
   			# Returns a String

generator.write()      # Write to the output file specified. No return value.

To read the code documentation, go here