Sitemap Builder

Generate sitemaps from programmatically collected URLs.

Features

• Adheres to Sitemap Protocal as defined at https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
• Generates an index that points to compressed sitemaps files
• each generated sitemap won't have more than the allowed amount (50.000 URLs)
• jinja2 templates

Install

pip install sitemap-builder

Usage

1. Import

from sitemap import Sitemap

2. Initialize

sitemap = Sitemap()

3. Add urls to process them later:

sitemap.add_item("dummy-page")
sitemap.add_item("another-page")
sitemap.add_item("category/foo-bar")

4. Generate sitemap index and files

sitemap.generate()

Example:

Generated files:

.
├── sitemap.xml
└── sitemaps
    ├── sitemap-0.xml.gz
    ├── sitemap-1.xml.gz
    ├── sitemap-2.xml.gz
	└── sitemap-3.xml.gz

Development

Crete virtualenv

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 ~/.virtualenvs/sitemap-builder

Activate it

workon sitemap-builder
make install