Sitemap URL Extractor - Get All URLs from sitemap.xml

What does Sitemap URL Extractor do?

Sitemap URL Extractor gets all URLs from a website's sitemap.xml in seconds. Enter a homepage and it automatically finds the sitemaps in robots.txt (or at /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml), follows sitemap index files, unpacks gzipped .xml.gz sitemaps, and returns one clean row per page URL with lastmod, changefreq, priority, hreflang alternates and image counts.

Use it as a sitemap scraper / sitemap parser API to list every page of a site before crawling, to feed URLs into other Actors (like Webpage to Markdown), or to monitor which pages were added or updated.

Why use it?

• 🔍 Automatic sitemap discovery – robots.txt Sitemap: lines plus the common default locations, including WordPress, Shopify, Yoast and Next.js sitemaps.
• 🗂️ Sitemap index support – recursively follows nested sitemap indexes (news, image, video, product, blog sitemaps).
• 🗜️ .xml, .xml.gz and .txt sitemaps – handles compressed and plain-text sitemaps and tolerates broken XML.
• 🎯 Include / exclude regex filters – e.g. only /blog/ or /products/ URLs. Filtered URLs are free.
• ⚡ Fast and cheap – plain HTTP, no browser: 10,000 URLs in about 6 seconds.
• 📊 Summary per site – which sitemaps were found and parsed, and which failed, in the SUMMARY record.

How to use it

1. Add website homepages (e.g. https://apify.com) or direct sitemap URLs to URLs.
2. Optionally set Max URLs per site and an include / exclude pattern.
3. Click Start and export the URL list as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }],
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 10000,
  "includePattern": "/blog/"
}

Output example

{
  "url": "https://apify.com/blog/web-scraping-guide",
  "lastmod": "2026-10-01",
  "changefreq": "weekly",
  "priority": 0.8,
  "imageCount": 1,
  "alternates": [{ "hreflang": "de", "href": "https://example.com/de/page" }],
  "sitemapUrl": "https://apify.com/sitemap/blog.xml",
  "site": "https://apify.com"
}

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event (PPE) pricing: you pay only for results, and the Apify platform compute it uses is already included.

Event	Price	Per 1,000
URL extracted	$0.0002 per URL	$0.20 per 1,000 URLs
Actor start	$0.0005 per run	–

Duplicate URLs and URLs removed by your include/exclude filters are not charged. Use Max URLs per site to cap the cost. For example, 1,000 URLs cost about $0.20. The Actor start fee is charged once per run (one event per GB of memory; the default memory setting counts as one). You can set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, enough to try it at no cost.

Use cases

• SEO audits – count indexable pages, find stale lastmod dates, check hreflang coverage.
• Crawl seeding – get a full URL list before scraping, instead of crawling link by link.
• Content monitoring – schedule daily runs and compare lastmod to detect new or updated pages on competitor sites.
• AI / RAG ingestion – list every docs page, then convert them with Webpage to Markdown.

FAQ

What if a site has no sitemap? The run summary lists it under "No sitemap found". You can then crawl it with a link crawler instead.

Can I pass a sitemap URL directly? Yes – any URL ending in .xml, .xml.gz or .txt is parsed directly.

Can I use it from the API, Make, Zapier or an AI agent? Yes. Call it through the Apify API, integrations or the Apify MCP server.

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