Sitemap

Loads one or more sitemaps from given URLs, following references in sitemap index files, and exposes the contained URLs.

Example usage:

// Load a sitemap
const sitemap = await Sitemap.load(['https://example.com/sitemap.xml', 'https://example.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz']);

// Enqueue all the contained URLs (including those from sub-sitemaps from sitemap indexes)
await crawler.addRequests(sitemap.urls);

Index

Constructors

• constructor

Properties

• urls

Methods

• fromXmlString
• load
• tryCommonNames

Constructors

constructor

• new Sitemap(urls: string[]): Sitemap

• Parameters

  • urls: string[]

  Returns Sitemap

Properties

readonlyurls

urls: string[]

Methods

staticfromXmlString

• fromXmlString(content: string, proxyUrl?: string): Promise<Sitemap>

• Parse XML sitemap content from a string and return URLs of referenced pages. If the sitemap references other sitemaps, they will be loaded via HTTP.

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  Parameters

  • content: string

    XML sitemap content

  • optionalproxyUrl: string

    URL of a proxy to be used for fetching sitemap contents

  Returns Promise<Sitemap>

staticload

• load(urls: string | string[], proxyUrl?: string): Promise<Sitemap>

• Fetch sitemap content from given URL or URLs and return URLs of referenced pages.

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  Parameters

  • urls: string | string[]

    sitemap URL(s)

  • optionalproxyUrl: string

    URL of a proxy to be used for fetching sitemap contents

  Returns Promise<Sitemap>

statictryCommonNames

• tryCommonNames(url: string, proxyUrl?: string): Promise<Sitemap>

• Try to load sitemap from the most common locations - /sitemap.xml and /sitemap.txt. For loading based on Sitemap entries in robots.txt, the RobotsFile class should be used.

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  Parameters

  • url: string

    The domain URL to fetch the sitemap for.

  • optionalproxyUrl: string

    A proxy to be used for fetching the sitemap file.

  Returns Promise<Sitemap>