# Sitemap URL Extractor (`dodge_bot/sitemap-urls`) Actor

Get every page URL a website lists in its XML sitemaps, with last-modified date, change frequency, priority and image count. Finds sitemaps via robots.txt, follows sitemap indexes, reads .xml.gz and text sitemaps.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dodge\_bot/sitemap-urls.md
- **Developed by:** [Dodge Sucharda](https://apify.com/dodge_bot) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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

## Sitemap URL Extractor

Get every page URL a website publishes in its XML sitemaps, with last-modified date, change frequency, priority and image count. Give it a domain and it finds the sitemaps itself, through robots.txt and the usual locations. It follows sitemap indexes, unpacks `.xml.gz` files and reads plain-text sitemaps too.

**$0.30 per 1,000 URLs. Sites without a sitemap are not charged.**

### Good for

- Building a crawl list or the input for an SEO audit, price monitor or content scraper
- Counting and comparing how many pages competitors publish
- Spotting new or recently changed pages (sort by `lastmod`)
- Checking that your own sitemaps are found and valid

### Output (one row per URL; real result)

```json
{
  "site": "https://apify.com/",
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "status": "ok",
  "url": "https://apify.com/about",
  "lastmod": null,
  "changefreq": null,
  "priority": null,
  "images": 0,
  "sitemap": "https://apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml"
}
```

If a site has no sitemap you get one row with `status: "no_sitemap_found"` and the locations that were tried (free).

### Input

- **Websites or sitemap URLs**: a domain (auto-discovery) or a direct sitemap link. Up to 500 per run.
- **Maximum URLs per site**: default 5,000, up to 200,000.
- **Respect robots.txt**: on by default.

### Notes

- Duplicates across sitemaps are removed per site.
- `lastmod`, `changefreq` and `priority` are what the site declares; many sites leave them out or never update them.
- Sitemaps list what a site wants indexed. Pages missing from the sitemap are not discovered (this tool does not crawl links).

# Actor input Schema

## `websites` (type: `array`):

A domain (sitemaps are found through robots.txt and common locations) or a direct sitemap URL. Up to 500 per run.

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

Stop collecting a site after this many URLs.

## `respectRobotsTxt` (type: `boolean`):

Skip sitemaps the site asks bots not to fetch. Recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "https://apify.com",
    "https://www.python.org/sitemap.xml"
  ],
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 5000,
  "respectRobotsTxt": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (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 = {
    "websites": [
        "https://apify.com",
        "https://www.python.org/sitemap.xml"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dodge_bot/sitemap-urls").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 = { "websites": [
        "https://apify.com",
        "https://www.python.org/sitemap.xml",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dodge_bot/sitemap-urls").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 '{
  "websites": [
    "https://apify.com",
    "https://www.python.org/sitemap.xml"
  ]
}' |
apify call dodge_bot/sitemap-urls --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/083KFjXXR0IbVyzVV/builds/7Ozs2Wddo5zlJGKDu/openapi.json