Sitemap URL & SEO Metadata Extractor

Crawl any XML sitemap and instantly extract comprehensive SEO metadata (Title, Description, H1s, OG Tags, Canonical) for every page.

Perform instant technical SEO audits and competitor analysis by extracting critical on-page SEO factors across an entire website simply by providing its sitemap! This actor uses a blazing-fast HTML crawler, making it incredibly lightweight and affordable.

What can this Actor do?

• ✅ Automatic Sitemap Parsing - Just drop in the sitemap.xml URL. It parses index sitemaps and nested URLs automatically.
• ✅ Lightning Fast - Uses Cheerio under the hood for millisecond-speed HTTP extraction.
• ✅ Comprehensive SEO Fields - Extracts <title>, <meta description>, <meta keywords>, <h1> tags, OpenGraph (og:) tags, and Canonical links.
• ✅ Export formats - Download your full site audit as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Why scrape SEO Metadata?

• 🎯 SEO Audits - Quickly identify missing titles, empty meta descriptions, or duplicate H1 tags across your entire site.
• 📊 Competitor Intelligence - Download a competitor's sitemap and see exactly how they structure their titles and keywords.
• 📍 Migration Validation - Ensure all your canonical tags and OG images ported over correctly during a site redesign.

How to use it

1. Enter the direct URL to the Sitemap URL (e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml).
2. Set the Max URLs to process to limit your crawl size (default is 1000).
3. Click Start!

How much does it cost?

This actor uses a Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for the pages successfully extracted!

• $0.50 per 1,000 URLs extracted.

Output Example

{
  "url": "https://apify.com/store",
  "title": "Apify Store - Web Scraping and Automation Tools",
  "description": "Discover ready-to-use web scraping and automation tools in Apify Store. Extract data from any website.",
  "keywords": "web scraping, automation, data extraction",
  "canonical": "https://apify.com/store",
  "h1s": [
    "Apify Store"
  ],
  "ogTags": {
    "og:title": "Apify Store - Web Scraping and Automation Tools",
    "og:description": "Discover ready-to-use web scraping and automation tools in Apify Store. Extract data from any website.",
    "og:type": "website",
    "og:url": "https://apify.com/store"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2023-10-25T15:00:00.000Z"
}