# Sitemap Change Monitor: Get Alerted to New and Updated Pages

**Use case:** 

Sitemap change monitor that returns only the pages that are new or updated since your last run. Point it at a sitemap, schedule it daily, and track competitor launches, new blog posts, and site changes without diffing files by hand. The first run lists the current pages, later runs show what changed.

## Input

```json
{
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "links": [
    "https://www.gitlab.com/sitemap.xml"
  ],
  "urlPattern": "",
  "customExcludePattern": "",
  "excludeExtensions": "",
  "checkLinkHealth": false,
  "maxUrls": 10,
  "maxSitemapsToFollow": 5,
  "onlyNewOrChanged": true,
  "stateName": "sitemap-watch",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "lastmod": {
    "label": "Last Modified",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "changefreq": {
    "label": "Change Frequency",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "priority": {
    "label": "Priority",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "linkStatus": {
    "label": "HTTP Status",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "changeType": {
    "label": "Change",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "sourceSitemap": {
    "label": "Source Sitemap",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [URL & Sitemap Link Extractor: Site Map, Health Checks & Monitor](https://apify.com/getascraper/url-link-extractor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/getascraper/url-link-extractor.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/getascraper/url-link-extractor.md

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`).