Sitemaps

Discover, retrieve and parse XML sitemaps, according to the spec at sitemaps.org.

See RDOC Documentation for detailed documentation.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sitemaps_parser', require: 'sitemaps'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sitemaps_parser

require 'sitemaps'

# parse a sitemap from a string
Sitemaps.parse("<xml ns=\"...")

# fetch and parse a sitemap from a known url
sitemap = Sitemaps.fetch("http://termscout.com/sitemap.xml")

# fetch and parse sitemaps, excluding paths matching a filter, and limiting to the top 200 
sitemap = Sitemaps.fetch("https://www.digitalocean.com/sitemaps.xml.gz", max_entries: 200) do |entry|
  entry.loc.path !~ /blog/i
end

# attempt to discover sitemaps for a site without a known sitemap location. Checks robots.txt and some common locations.
sitemap = Sitemaps.discover("https://www.digitalocean.com", max_entries: 200) do |entry|
  entry.loc.path !~ /blog/i
end

# sitemap usage
sitemap.entries.first #> Sitemaps::Entry(loc: 'http://example.com/page', lastmod: DateTime.utc, changefreq: :monthly, priority: 0.5)
urls = sitemap.entries.map(&:loc)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/GSA/sitemaps. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.