# Sitemap New Page Monitor — competitor content radar (`davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor`) Actor Watch any website's sitemap on a schedule and get only the NEW and UPDATED pages since the last run. See every page a competitor publishes — their content strategy, live. - **URL**: https://apify.com/davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [David](https://apify.com/davidbenittah) (community) - **Categories:** SEO tools, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $10.00 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Sitemap New Page Monitor — Competitor Content Radar Watch any website's sitemap on a schedule and get **only the NEW and UPDATED pages** since your last run. Every page a competitor publishes shows up in their sitemap — this Actor turns that into a live feed of **their content strategy**. SEO teams pay serious money for "competitor content monitoring". The raw signal is free and sitting in `sitemap.xml`: what they published, what they refreshed, what they deleted. What's missing is the memory and the diff — that's what this Actor adds. ### What it does 1. **Auto-discovers** each site's sitemap: direct `.xml`/`.xml.gz` URL, `robots.txt` `Sitemap:` declaration, or the conventional `/sitemap.xml` — with sitemap-index recursion and gzip support. 2. Reads every page URL and its ``. 3. Compares against the previous run and outputs: - `changeType: "new"` — pages that didn't exist before (their new content), - `changeType: "updated"` — pages whose `lastmod` changed (their content refreshes), - removed-page counts in the run summary. ### Input example ```json { "siteUrls": [ "https://competitor-a.com", "https://competitor-b.com/sitemap.xml" ] } ```` The defaults work as-is. ### Output example ```json { "siteUrl": "https://competitor-a.com", "pageUrl": "https://competitor-a.com/blog/new-feature-announcement", "lastmod": "2026-07-06T08:00:00.000Z", "changeType": "new", "isBaseline": false, "detectedAt": "2026-07-07T06:00:00.000Z" } ``` A `SUMMARY` record in the run's key-value store gives the per-site picture: pages in sitemap, new/updated/removed counts, which sitemap was used, truncation flags. ### How to use it - **Competitor content watch**: weekly schedule on your competitors → every new blog post, landing page or product page they ship, in your inbox before it ranks. - **SEO agencies**: one monitor per client vertical; new competitor pages = fresh brief opportunities for your client. - **Your own site**: catch pages accidentally dropped from your sitemap (`removedPages` in the summary) — a classic silent SEO regression. ### Fair use & data - Reads only `robots.txt` and sitemap files — the two files websites **publish specifically for automated readers**. - No page content is fetched, no personal data collected. - Hard caps (10 sites, 50 sitemap files, 20k pages per site) keep runs bounded; truncation is always flagged, never silent. ### FAQ **A site has no sitemap?** The run summary reports the error for that site and the others still work. **Huge site (100k+ pages)?** Raise `maxUrlsPerSite` up to 20k, or point `siteUrls` at the specific sub-sitemap you care about (e.g. `sitemap-blog.xml`). **First run floods me.** That's the baseline (flagged `isBaseline: true`); disable `includeBaselineInOutput` to start silent. **How do I reset the memory?** Set a new `monitorId`. # Actor input Schema ## `siteUrls` (type: `array`): Site roots (https://competitor.com — the sitemap is auto-discovered via robots.txt) or direct sitemap URLs (.xml / .xml.gz). Hard maximum: 10 sites per run. ## `maxSitemapsPerSite` (type: `integer`): Large sites split their sitemap into many files (sitemap index). Cap on how many are read per site. Hard maximum: 50. ## `maxUrlsPerSite` (type: `integer`): Safety cap on pages remembered per site. Hard maximum: 20000. ## `trackUpdatedPages` (type: `boolean`): Report pages whose changed since the last run (content refreshes), in addition to brand-new pages. ## `includeBaselineInOutput` (type: `boolean`): The very first run saves each site's current pages. When enabled, those are also pushed to the dataset (flagged isBaseline=true). Later runs output only NEW and UPDATED pages. ## `monitorId` (type: `string`): Optional. Advanced: name this monitor to keep several baselines for the same sites, or reset one by changing the ID. ## Actor input object example ```json { "siteUrls": [ "https://www.anthropic.com" ], "maxSitemapsPerSite": 10, "maxUrlsPerSite": 5000, "trackUpdatedPages": true, "includeBaselineInOutput": true } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "siteUrls": [ "https://www.anthropic.com" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "siteUrls": ["https://www.anthropic.com"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "siteUrls": [ "https://www.anthropic.com" ] }' | apify call davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=davidbenittah/sitemap-new-page-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Sitemap New Page Monitor — competitor content radar", "description": "Watch any website's sitemap on a schedule and get only the NEW and UPDATED pages since the last run. 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Hard maximum: 10 sites per run.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxSitemapsPerSite": { "title": "Max sitemap files per site", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Large sites split their sitemap into many files (sitemap index). Cap on how many are read per site. Hard maximum: 50.", "default": 10 }, "maxUrlsPerSite": { "title": "Max pages tracked per site", "minimum": 10, "maximum": 20000, "type": "integer", "description": "Safety cap on pages remembered per site. Hard maximum: 20000.", "default": 5000 }, "trackUpdatedPages": { "title": "Also report updated pages", "type": "boolean", "description": "Report pages whose changed since the last run (content refreshes), in addition to brand-new pages.", "default": true }, "includeBaselineInOutput": { "title": "Output the baseline on first run", "type": "boolean", "description": "The very first run saves each site's current pages. When enabled, those are also pushed to the dataset (flagged isBaseline=true). Later runs output only NEW and UPDATED pages.", "default": true }, "monitorId": { "title": "Custom monitor ID", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. 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