# Sitemap URL Extractor: All Pages from Any Website (`intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor`) Actor

Get every page URL of a website from its sitemaps. Auto-discovers sitemaps via robots.txt, follows nested sitemap indexes, reads .gz and .txt sitemaps, and filters by regex or lastmod date. No browser, no proxies, fast and cheap.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Dan W](https://apify.com/intuitive_ytterbium) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.20 / 1,000 url extracteds

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: All Pages from Any Website

Get every page URL of a website from its sitemaps. Auto-discovers sitemaps via robots.txt, follows nested sitemap indexes, reads .gz and .txt sitemaps, and filters by regex or lastmod date. No browser, no proxies, fast and cheap.

### Why this Actor

- **Pay only for results:** $0.0002 per url extracted. No start fee, no monthly rental. Set a max charge per run and it stops there.
- **Fast and reliable:** public, documented sources and plain HTTP. No headless browser, no login, no personal data.
- **Clean output:** one consistent row format, ready for Sheets, Clay, Zapier, Make or the Apify API.

### How to use

**Example use cases**

1. **SEO audits:** get every indexable URL of a site in seconds, with lastmod dates.
2. **Competitor content tracking:** list new pages a competitor published since a date.
3. **Scraper seeding:** feed a clean URL list into another crawler or Actor.

**Steps:** 1) Click **Try for free** — the form is pre-filled with the example below. 2) Press **Start**. 3) Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect them to Sheets, Zapier, Make or Slack. Schedule it to run daily/weekly.

**Example input** (the prefilled form):

```json
{"sites": ["https://apify.com"], "maxUrls": 10}
```

**Sample output** (first row of a real run on 2026-10-15, long fields trimmed):

```json
{
 "site": "https://apify.com",
 "url": "https://apify.com/",
 "lastmod": null,
 "changefreq": null,
 "priority": null,
 "sitemap": "https://apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml"
}
```

**Pricing:** pay per event — $0.0002 per url extracted. No monthly rental; you only pay for results. Set a max charge per run to cap spend.

### Input example

```json
{"sites": ["payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev", "https://apify.com"], "maxUrls": 40, "includeRegex": ""}
```

### Output example

```json
[
  {
    "site": "payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev",
    "url": "https://payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev/",
    "lastmod": null,
    "changefreq": null,
    "priority": null,
    "sitemap": "https://payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev/sitemap.xml"
  },
  {
    "site": "payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev",
    "url": "https://payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev/tools/",
    "lastmod": null,
    "changefreq": null,
    "priority": null,
    "sitemap": "https://payoffpath-wv2.pages.dev/sitemap.xml"
  }
]
```

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| URL extracted (`url-extracted`) | $0.0002 |

Example: 1,000 results cost $0.2.

### Notes

Uses only publicly available data and official public endpoints. Please respect each source's terms of use. Questions or feature requests: open an issue on the Actor page.

### Use it from AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or n8n through Apify's MCP server at `https://mcp.apify.com` (tool name: `intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor`), or call it from LangChain / LlamaIndex / OpenAI Agents via the Apify integration. For several public-data tools in one MCP server, see **Public Data MCP** by the same author.

AI keywords: MCP tool, AI agent tool, Model Context Protocol, LLM function calling, Claude tool, ChatGPT tool.

# Actor input Schema

## `sites` (type: `array`):

Domain (example.com), homepage URL, or a direct sitemap URL.

## `includeRegex` (type: `string`):

Only keep URLs matching this regular expression, e.g. /blog/.

## `excludeRegex` (type: `string`):

Drop URLs matching this regular expression.

## `modifiedSince` (type: `string`):

Only URLs with lastmod on/after this date.

## `maxUrls` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap for the run (controls cost).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sites": [
    "https://apify.com"
  ],
  "maxUrls": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {
    "sites": [
        "https://apify.com"
    ],
    "maxUrls": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor").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 = {
    "sites": ["https://apify.com"],
    "maxUrls": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor").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 '{
  "sites": [
    "https://apify.com"
  ],
  "maxUrls": 10
}' |
apify call intuitive_ytterbium/sitemap-url-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/Zb3TdBgWdPanxCUPN/builds/Bdih0gyuYTEKKNYpz/openapi.json