Sitemaps
Page Summary
The Sitemap resource provides detailed information about URLs submitted through a sitemap file, including submission date, download date, and error/warning counts.
The resource representation includes properties for content types, error/warning numbers, and sitemap metadata like path, type, and processing status.
A sitemap can contain various content types, including web pages, images, videos, news articles, mobile pages and Android/iOS apps.
You can manage sitemaps through dedicated methods to delete, retrieve information, list, and submit them.
For a list ofmethods for this resource, see the end of this page.
Resource representations
Sitemap
Contains detailed information about a specific URL submitted as asitemap.
{"path":string,"lastSubmitted":datetime,"isPending":boolean,"isSitemapsIndex":boolean,"type":string,"lastDownloaded":datetime,"warnings":long,"errors":long,"contents":[{"type":string,"submitted":long,"indexed":long}]}| Property name | Value | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
contents[] | list | The various content types in the sitemap. | |
contents[].indexed | N/A | Deprecated; do not use. | |
contents[].submitted | long | The number of URLs in the sitemap (of the content type). | |
contents[].type | string | The specific type of content in this sitemap. For example:web.Acceptable values are:
| |
errors | long | Number of errors in the sitemap. These are issues with the sitemap itself that need to be fixed before it can be processed correctly. | |
isPending | boolean | If true, the sitemap has not been processed. | |
isSitemapsIndex | boolean | If true, the sitemap is a collection of sitemaps. | |
lastDownloaded | datetime | Date & time in which this sitemap was last downloaded. Date format is in RFC 3339 format (yyyy-mm-dd). | |
lastSubmitted | datetime | Date & time in which this sitemap was submitted. Date format is in RFC 3339 format (yyyy-mm-dd). | |
path | string | The url of the sitemap. | |
type | string | The type of the sitemap. For example:rssFeed.Acceptable values are:
| |
warnings | long | Number of warnings for the sitemap. These are generally non-critical issues with URLs in the sitemaps. |
Methods
- delete
- Deletes a sitemap from this site.
- get
- Retrieves information about a specific sitemap.
- list
- Lists thesitemaps-entries submitted for this site, or included in the sitemap index file (if
sitemapIndexis specified in the request). - submit
- Submits a sitemap for a site.
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Last updated 2024-07-23 UTC.