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Create xml sitemaps from the command line.

Generates a sitemap by crawling your site. Uses streams to efficiently write the sitemap to your drive. Is cappable of creating multiple sitemaps if threshold is reached. Respects robots.txt and meta tags.

• Install
• Usage
• Options
• License

This module is available onnpm.

npm install -g sitemap-generator-cli# or execute it directly with npx (since npm v5.2)npx sitemap-generator-cli https://example.com

The crawler will fetch all folder URL pages and file typesparsed by Google. If present therobots.txt will be taken into account and possible rules are applied for each URL to consider if it should be added to the sitemap. Also the crawler will not fetch URL's from a page if the robots meta tag with the valuenofollow is present and ignore them completely ifnoindex rule is present. The crawler is able to apply thebase value to found links.

sitemap-generator [options]<url>

When the crawler finished the XML Sitemap will be built and saved to your specified filepath. If the count of fetched pages is greater than 50000 it will be splitted into several sitemap files and create a sitemapindex file. Google does not allow more than 50000 items in one sitemap.

Example:

sitemap-generator http://example.com

sitemap-generator --help  Usage: cli [options]<url>  Options:    -V, --version                           output the version number    -f, --filepath<filepath>               path to file including filename (default: sitemap.xml)    -m, --max-entries<maxEntries>          limits the maximum number of URLs per sitemap file (default: 50000)    -d, --max-depth<maxDepth>              limits the maximum distance from the original request (default: 0)    -q, --query                             consider query string    -u, --user-agent<agent>set custom User Agent    -v, --verbose                           print details when crawling    -c, --max-concurrency<maxConcurrency>  maximum number of requests the crawler will run simultaneously (default: 5)    -r, --no-respect-robots-txt             controls whether the crawler should respect rulesin robots.txt    -l, --last-mod                          add Last-Modified header to xml    -g, --change-freq<changeFreq>          adds a<changefreq> line to each URLin the sitemap.    -p, --priority-map<priorityMap>        priorityfor each depth url, values between 1.0 and 0.0, example:"1.0,0.8 0.6,0.4"    -x, --proxy<url>                       Use the passed proxy URL    -h, --help                              output usage information

Path to file to write including the filename itself. Path can be absolute or relative. Default issitemap.xml.

Examples:

• sitemap.xml
• mymap.xml
• /var/www/sitemap.xml
• ./sitemap.myext

Sets the maximum number of requests the crawler will run simultaneously (default: 5).

Define a limit of URLs per sitemap files, useful for site with lots of urls. Defaults to 50000.

Set a maximum distance from the original request to crawl URLs, useful for generating smallersitemap.xml files. Defaults to 0, which means it will crawl all levels.

Controls whether the crawler should respect rules in robots.txt.

Consider URLs with query strings likehttp://www.example.com/?foo=bar as individual sites and add them to the sitemap.

Set a custom User Agent used for crawling. Default isNode/SitemapGenerator.

Print debug messages during crawling process. Also prints out a summery when finished.

add Last-Modified header to xml

adds a line to each URL in the sitemap.

add priority for each depth url, values between 1.0 and 0.0, example: "1.0,0.8 0.6,0.4"

MIT ©Lars Graubner