Easily create XML sitemaps for your website.
Generates a sitemap by crawling your site. Uses streams to efficiently write the sitemap to your drive and runs asynchronously to avoid blocking the thread. Is cappable of creating multiple sitemaps if threshold is reached. Respects robots.txt and meta tags.
This module is available on npm.
$ npm install -S sitemap-generator
This module is running only with Node.js and is not meant to be used in the browser.
const SitemapGenerator = require('sitemap-generator');
const SitemapGenerator = require('sitemap-generator');
// create generator
const generator = SitemapGenerator('http://example.com', {
stripQuerystring: false
});
// register event listeners
generator.on('done', () => {
// sitemaps created
});
// start the crawler
generator.start();
The crawler will fetch all folder URL pages and file types parsed by Google. If present the robots.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 value nofollow
is present and ignore them completely if noindex
rule is present. The crawler is able to apply the base
value to found links.
The generator offers straightforward methods to start and stop it. You can also query some information about status and output.
Returns array of paths to generated sitemaps. Empty until the crawler is done.
Returns object with info about fetched URL's. Get's updated live during crawling process.
{
added: 0,
ignored: 0,
errored: 0
}
Returns the status of the generator. Possible values are waiting
, started
, stopped
and done
.
Starts crawler asynchronously and writes sitemap to disk.
Stops the running crawler and halts the sitemap generation.
You can provide some options to alter the behaviour of the crawler.
var generator = SitemapGenerator('http://example.com', {
crawlerMaxDepth: 0,
filepath: path.join(process.cwd(), 'sitemap.xml'),
maxEntriesPerFile: 50000,
stripQuerystring: true
});
Type: number
Default: 0
Defines a maximum distance from the original request at which resources will be fetched.
Type: string
Default: ./sitemap.xml
Filepath for the new sitemap. If multiple sitemaps are created "part_$index" is appended to each filename.
Type: number
Default: 50000
Google limits the maximum number of URLs in one sitemap to 50000. If this limit is reached the sitemap-generator creates another sitemap. A sitemap index file will be created as well.
Type: boolean
Default: true
Whether to treat URL's with query strings like http://www.example.com/?foo=bar
as indiviual sites and add them to the sitemap.
The Sitemap Generator emits several events which can be listened to.
Triggered when the crawler successfully added a resource to the sitemap. Passes the url as argument.
generator.on('add', (url) => {
// log url
});
Triggered when the crawler finished and the sitemap is created. Provides statistics as first argument. Stats are the same as from getStats
.
generator.on('done', (stats) => {
// sitemaps created
});
Thrown if there was an error while fetching an URL. Passes an object with the http status code, a message and the url as argument.
generator.on('error', (error) => {
console.log(error);
// => { code: 404, message: 'Not found.', url: 'http://example.com/foo' }
});
If an URL matches a disallow rule in the robots.txt
file or meta robots noindex is present this event is triggered. The URL will not be added to the sitemap. Passes the ignored url as argument.
generator.on('ignore', (url) => {
// log ignored url
});