# Find new or updated pages from a website sitemap

**Use case:** 

List only the pages a website added or changed recently, read from the lastmod dates in its XML sitemaps. Set Changed since to a date or to "3 days", "7 days" or "yesterday" and schedule the task: every run returns just the new and updated URLs. Useful for content monitoring, competitor tracking and feeding fresh pages to an LLM or a crawler.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com"
  ],
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 200,
  "lastmodSince": "3 days",
  "keepUndated": false,
  "includePatterns": [],
  "excludePatterns": [],
  "includeExtras": false,
  "checkStatus": false,
  "maxStatusChecksPerSite": 1000,
  "maxSitemapsPerSite": 1000
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "lastmod": {
    "label": "Last modified"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "HTTP status",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "sitemapUrl": {
    "label": "Sitemap",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "site": {
    "label": "Site"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Sitemap Extractor — All URLs, lastmod, Images & hreflang Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Find new or updated pages from a website sitemap". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/RLwb0WPqkRhq6RWeD) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Find new or updated pages from a website sitemap" task

The Sitemap Extractor — All URLs, lastmod, Images & hreflang Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like websites or sitemap urls, max urls per site, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Find new or updated pages from a website sitemap" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as URL, last modified, HTTP status, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Find new or updated pages from a website sitemap" task via API](https://apify.com/saliga/sitemap-extractor.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Sitemap Extractor — All URLs, lastmod, Images & hreflang](https://apify.com/saliga/sitemap-extractor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/saliga/sitemap-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/saliga/sitemap-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`).