# Sitemap URL Extractor: Get All Website URLs — Sitemoss (`cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor`) Actor

Sitemap URL extractor: get all URLs of a website from its XML sitemaps. Finds sitemaps via robots.txt, follows sitemap indexes and .gz files, returns lastmod, changefreq, priority, hreflang and image counts. Monitor mode returns only new and updated pages. $0.40 per 1,000 URLs, no start fee.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [CyberMax](https://apify.com/cybermax) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.40 / 1,000 url extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Sitemoss: Sitemap URL Extractor — Get All Website URLs from Sitemaps

#### Every page URL of a website, from its own sitemaps, in seconds

Give it domains or sitemap URLs; get every page URL the site publishes, with `lastmod`, `changefreq`, `priority`, hreflang alternates and image counts. Sitemoss finds the sitemaps itself (robots.txt `Sitemap:` lines, `/sitemap.xml`, `/sitemap_index.xml`, `/wp-sitemap.xml`), follows sitemap indexes and reads `.xml.gz` and `.txt` sitemaps. $0.40 per 1,000 URLs, no start fee.

**[▶ Try it now with a prefilled input](https://apify.com/cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor)** · $0.0004 per URL (10,000 URLs = $4) · sites with no sitemap and filtered-out URLs are free · Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit a month

**Built for:** SEO teams auditing or migrating a site · content teams tracking a competitor's new pages · developers feeding a crawler, link checker or RAG pipeline · AI agents that need "all URLs of example.com"

**Real output** (real run on Apify, 25 Oct 2026: 2 sites, 20 URLs, 2.6 s, $0.008):

| URL | Found in | Site |
|---|---|---|
| https://apify.com/ | apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml (from the sitemap index) | apify.com |
| https://apify.com/about | apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml | apify.com |
| https://apify.com/actors | apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml | apify.com |
| https://crawlee.dev/blog | crawlee.dev/sitemap.xml (found via robots.txt) | crawlee.dev |
| https://crawlee.dev/blog/archive | crawlee.dev/sitemap.xml | crawlee.dev |

```json
{"urls": ["https://apify.com/sitemap.xml", "crawlee.dev"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 10}
```

### Ready-made inputs (one click)

| Job | Input | Result |
|---|---|---|
| **First try** | `{"urls": ["https://apify.com/sitemap.xml"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 20}` | 20 URLs, about $0.008. |
| **All URLs of a site** | `{"urls": ["example.com"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 50000}` | Every URL in every sitemap the site lists. |
| **Only blog posts changed this month** | `{"urls": ["example.com"], "urlPattern": "/blog/", "lastmodAfter": "2026-10-01"}` | Recently updated posts only; the rest is free. |
| **Competitor new-page alerts** | `{"urls": ["competitor.com"], "monitor": true, "monitorKey": "competitor"}` | On a schedule: only pages that are new or have a new lastmod. |

### Use cases

- **Site audits and migrations:** the full URL inventory in one table, ready for a redirect map or a status check (pipe it into [Bouncefern](https://apify.com/cybermax/url-status-checker)).
- **Competitor content tracking:** monitor mode on a daily schedule returns only the pages a competitor added or updated.
- **Crawler seeds and RAG:** start a crawl from the URLs a site wants indexed instead of guessing links.
- **International SEO:** every hreflang alternate the sitemap declares, per URL.
- **Image and video SEO:** image and video counts per URL from image/video sitemap extensions.

### Why Sitemoss

| | Sitemoss | Typical sitemap extractor on the Store |
|---|---|---|
| Finds the sitemap for you | robots.txt, then 4 well-known paths | Often needs the exact sitemap URL |
| Sitemap indexes, `.gz`, `.txt` | All followed and read | Varies |
| Fields | lastmod, changefreq, priority, hreflang alternates, image/video counts, source sitemap, index depth | Often URL only |
| New/updated pages only | Built-in monitor mode, unchanged URLs free | Not offered |
| Price | $0.40 per 1,000 URLs, no start fee | $0.35 to $100 per 1,000 (rival median about $1.50, Store prices on 25 Oct 2026), some with start fees |

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `urls` | Domains, any page of a site, or sitemap URLs (required). |
| `maxUrlsPerSite` | Stop after this many URLs per site (default 1,000). |
| `urlPattern`, `excludePattern` | Regex include/exclude on the URL. |
| `lastmodAfter` | Only URLs whose sitemap lastmod is on/after this date. |
| `sameSiteOnly` | Drop entries on other domains. |
| `monitor`, `monitorKey` | Only new or updated URLs since the last monitor run. |

### Output

One row per URL: `url`, `lastmod` (ISO), `changefreq`, `priority`, `imageCount`, `videoCount`, `alternates` (hreflang + href), `newsTitle`, `site`, `sitemap` (the file it came from), `sitemapDepth`, and `change` in monitor mode. The run's `OUTPUT` record has per-site counts, the sitemap source (input, robots.txt or well-known paths) and any errors.

### Pricing

- **$0.0004 per URL delivered** ($0.40 per 1,000). No start fee.
- Free: duplicates, filtered-out URLs, unchanged URLs in monitor mode, sites without a sitemap.
- Set a maximum charge per run in Apify's run options; Sitemoss stops cleanly when it is reached.

### Run it on a schedule

Apify Console → **Schedules** → **Create new** → cron `0 6 * * *` → **Add Actor** → Sitemoss with your sites and `"monitor": true`. Through the API:

```json
POST https://api.apify.com/v2/schedules?token=YOUR_TOKEN
{
  "name": "sitemoss-competitor-pages",
  "cronExpression": "0 6 * * *",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "isEnabled": true,
  "actions": [{
    "type": "RUN_ACTOR",
    "actorId": "cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor",
    "runInput": {
      "body": "{\"urls\":[\"competitor.com\"],\"monitor\":true,\"monitorKey\":\"competitor\",\"maxUrlsPerSite\":50000}",
      "contentType": "application/json"
    }
  }]
}
```

Add an email, Slack or webhook notification on "Run succeeded" under the Actor's **Integrations** tab.

### Integrations

**API (synchronous):** `POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cybermax~sitemap-url-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN` with the input JSON returns the URL rows.

**Make / Zapier:** Apify app → "Run an Actor" (`cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor`, run synchronously) → "Get dataset items" → map `url` and `lastmod` into Google Sheets, Airtable or Slack.

**n8n:** Apify node ("Run an Actor and get dataset"), or HTTP Request:

```
POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cybermax~sitemap-url-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN
{"urls": ["example.com"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 5000}
```

**Google Sheets:**

```
=IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cybermax~sitemap-url-extractor/runs/last/dataset/items?format=csv&fields=url,lastmod,sitemap&token=YOUR_TOKEN")
```

**Python** (`pip install apify-client`):

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor").call(run_input={"urls": ["example.com"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 5000})
urls = [r["url"] for r in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items()]
```

**AI agents (MCP):** `https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor` (Authorization: `Bearer YOUR_TOKEN`). Typical prompts: "List every blog URL on example.com updated since October", "Which pages did competitor.com add this week?".

### When NOT to use it

- **Sites without a sitemap:** Sitemoss reads what the site publishes; it doesn't crawl links. Those sites are reported in `OUTPUT` and cost nothing.
- **Pages a site leaves out of its sitemap** (private, noindex or forgotten pages) won't appear.

### FAQ

**Why not open sitemap.xml in a browser?** Fine for one small file. Real sites split sitemaps into indexes of dozens of gzipped files; Sitemoss follows all of them, de-duplicates, filters and hands you one table, on a schedule if you like.

**Why not a full website crawler?** A crawler fetches every page (slow, costly, and heavier on the site). The sitemap is the site's own list of pages and comes back in seconds.

**Can an AI agent use it (MCP)?** Yes. Add `https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor` as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client.

**How many URLs can it handle?** Up to 1,000,000 per site per run (`maxUrlsPerSite`), streamed in batches with flat memory.

**Is it legal to use?** Sitemaps are published by site owners precisely so automated tools can read them, and Sitemoss reads only the sitemap files and robots.txt. This is general information, not legal advice.

### Start now

**[▶ Try Sitemoss with a prefilled input](https://apify.com/cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor)** · $0.40 per 1,000 URLs. Questions or a sitemap it can't read? Open an issue on the Store page and it gets answered the same day.

### Also from CyberMax

- [Bouncefern — bulk URL status & redirect checker](https://apify.com/cybermax/url-status-checker): status code, final URL and redirect chain for every URL Sitemoss finds.
- [Unfurlwren — meta tags & Open Graph extractor](https://apify.com/cybermax/meta-tags-extractor): title, description, OG image and schema.org per page, with SEO issues.
- [Eldwren — Wayback Machine scraper](https://apify.com/cybermax/wayback-machine): a site's archive history and every URL it ever had.
- [Keyfern — long-tail keyword ideas](https://apify.com/cybermax/keyword-ideas): Google Autocomplete keyword research.

### Changelog

- 2026-10-25: First release: robots.txt and well-known sitemap discovery, sitemap indexes, .gz and .txt sitemaps, hreflang/image/video fields, filters, monitor mode.

© 2026 CyberMax. All rights reserved.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One per line: a domain (example.com), any page of the site (https://www.example.com/blog) or a sitemap URL (https://example.com/post-sitemap.xml, .xml.gz or .txt). For a domain, Sitemoss reads the Sitemap: lines in robots.txt, then tries /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml and /wp-sitemap.xml, and follows every sitemap index.

## `maxUrlsPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many URLs for one site. Each delivered URL is one charged result.

## `urlPattern` (type: `string`):

Optional, e.g. /blog/|/products/ . Skipped URLs are free.

## `excludePattern` (type: `string`):

Optional, e.g. /tag/|/author/|?page=

## `lastmodAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional date (2026-10-01). Keeps only URLs whose sitemap lastmod is on or after it; URLs without a lastmod are skipped (free).

## `sameSiteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Drop sitemap entries that point to other domains.

## `maxSitemapsPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Safety limit for huge sitemap indexes.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout per sitemap download (retried twice on errors).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many sites to read at the same time.

## `monitor` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs. Remembers every URL and its lastmod per site and returns only URLs that are new or whose lastmod changed since the last monitor run (field change = new | updated). Unchanged URLs are not returned and not charged. The first monitor run returns everything as new.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for this watchlist's saved state (e.g. competitor-blogs), so you can change the site list without starting over.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://apify.com/sitemap.xml"
  ],
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 20,
  "sameSiteOnly": false,
  "maxSitemapsPerSite": 200,
  "timeoutSecs": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "monitor": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://apify.com/sitemap.xml"
    ],
    "maxUrlsPerSite": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": ["https://apify.com/sitemap.xml"],
    "maxUrlsPerSite": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://apify.com/sitemap.xml"
  ],
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 20
}' |
apify call cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cybermax/sitemap-url-extractor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/XfKFjrCxyFIycSH1T/builds/H5jfZ2doJbUusaTb2/openapi.json