Help Center Sitemap Extractor

Store Positioning

Store title: Help Center Sitemap Extractor

Short description: Extract public help center sitemap URLs, article URLs, categories, locales, last-modified signals, crawl depth, and indexability clues into a clean help-center inventory.

SEO title: Help Center Sitemap Extractor — technical SEO, web, and domain audit

SEO description: Extract public help center sitemap URLs, article URLs, categories, locales, last-modified signals, crawl depth, and indexability clues into a clean help-center inventory. Use it to find crawlability, indexability, security, metadata, and page-quality issues with evidence-backed rows and audit reports.

Categories: SEO_TOOLS, DEVELOPER_TOOLS

Keywords: help, center, sitemap, extractor, public data, local seo, web/domain audit

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: W1 — Web/domain audit
• Primary event: sitemap-file-checked at $0.00490 base
• Default max charge: $10.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.00500, GOLD $0.00400. Help Center Sitemap Extractor: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• sitemap-file-checked: base $0.00490, GOLD $0.00392. Help Center Sitemap Extractor: charged when sitemap file checked is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-extracted: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Help Center Sitemap Extractor: charged when record extracted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• finding-emitted: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Help Center Sitemap Extractor: charged when finding emitted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• audit-report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04000. Help Center Sitemap Extractor: charged when audit report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Audit Help Center Sitemap controls on a capped public sample
• Find high-priority Help Center Sitemap issues before release
• Validate Help Center Sitemap evidence from supplied pages
• Prioritize Help Center Sitemap fixes with severity and proof
• Export Help Center Sitemap QA rows for client review

Extract public help center sitemap URLs, article URLs, categories, locales, last-modified signals, crawl depth, and indexability clues into a clean help-center inventory.

What it does

• Accept help center base URLs, sitemap URLs, robots.txt URLs, or raw sitemap XML.
• Discover sitemap indexes, article sitemaps, category pages, section pages, locale paths, and support article URLs.
• Extract URL type, title where available, locale, lastmod, changefreq, priority, depth, status code, canonical hints, and source sitemap.
• Deduplicate URLs and classify article/category/section/search/system URLs.
• Generate a support content inventory and sitemap coverage report.

What it does not do

• No private support portals, authenticated crawling, full content scraping by default, SEO ranking promises, sitemap submission, or heavy site mirroring.

Input fields

Primary inputs from the locked actor spec: startUrls, sitemapUrls, robotsUrls, rawSitemapXml, allowedDomains, includeRobotsDiscovery, classifyUrlTypes, fetchPageTitles, includeStatusChecks, localeHints, maxUrls, timeoutMs. maxChargeUsd keeps runs capped during production use.

Output fields

Dataset rows include: sourceSitemapUrl, url, urlType, title, locale, categoryHint, sectionHint, lastModified, changeFrequency, priority, statusCode, canonicalUrl, depth, isDuplicate, warning.

Starter example

Use examples/input.tiny.json as a small starter input. Keep the first run capped and review the dataset before increasing limits.

Public task examples

• Run Help Center Sitemap Extractor on supplied sample data: Run Help Center Sitemap Extractor on supplied sample data using a small bounded input.
• Generate a Help Center Sitemap Extractor QA report: Generate a Help Center Sitemap Extractor QA report using a small bounded input.
• Find invalid rows with Help Center Sitemap Extractor: Find invalid rows with Help Center Sitemap Extractor using a small bounded input.
• Create a capped local endpoint readiness check for Help Center Sitemap Extractor: Create a capped local endpoint readiness check for Help Center Sitemap Extractor using a small bounded input.
• Prepare Help Center Sitemap Extractor output for downstream automation: Prepare Help Center Sitemap Extractor output for downstream automation using a small bounded input.

Public source provenance

The starter input extracts a five-URL sample from Stripe's public Support sitemap at https://support.stripe.com/sitemap.xml. The source is fetched during each run, capped before enrichment, and restricted to the official support.stripe.com host.

Reports

• help-center-sitemap-inventory.md
• help-center-urls.json
• help-center-url-type-summary.csv
• locale-coverage-report.json
• sitemap-discovery-log.json

Limitations and safe use

Start with supplied-input runs, then enable live endpoints only with tight caps, domain allowlists, and no secrets in public examples.