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XML Sitemap Validator

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XML Sitemap Validator

XML Sitemap Validator

Under maintenance

Validate XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes for SEO health — well-formedness, missing/invalid <loc> URLs, index integrity, lastmod coverage, and oversized files. One clean report per URL. Pay-per-event: $0.01 per batch of up to 200 sitemaps.

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Validate XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes for SEO health — well-formedness, missing/invalid

🚀 What it does

This Actor automates a task that would otherwise take hours of manual work. It is built for batch processing — run it once on a list of inputs and get a structured, downloadable report.

✨ Features

  • Batch processing — handle one or many inputs in a single run
  • Structured output — clean tables, ready for CSV/JSON export
  • Pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you use
  • API & CLI ready — integrate it into any workflow

📥 Input configuration

Configure the Actor with these fields:

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
startUrlsarray✅ RequiredList of sitemap or sitemap-index URLs to validate (e.g. https://example.com/sitemap.xml). One output row per URL.
checkLivebooleanOptionalOptionally HTTP-probe a sample of
maxLiveCheckintegerOptionalMaximum number of URLs to probe per sitemap when checkLive is true.

💡 Usage example

Run via Apify API (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sootesting~sitemap-xml-validator/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"startUrls": [
"https://example.com/sitemap.xml"
]
}'

Run via Apify CLI

apify run --actor-name sootesting~sitemap-xml-validator --input '{
"startUrls": [
"https://example.com/sitemap.xml"
]
}'

📤 Output schema

The Actor produces the following structured data:

FieldTypeDescription
urlstringurl
rootstringroot
fetchedbooleanfetched
statusintegerstatus
fileSizeBytesintegerfileSizeBytes
tooLargebooleantooLarge
xmlWellFormedbooleanxmlWellFormed
parseErrorstringparseError
isIndexbooleanisIndex
urlCountintegerurlCount
sitemapCountintegersitemapCount
namespacesarraynamespaces
invalidLocCountintegerinvalidLocCount
sampleInvalidLocsarraysampleInvalidLocs
hasLastmodPctnumberhasLastmodPct
hasPrioritybooleanhasPriority
hasImageExtbooleanhasImageExt
hasNewsExtbooleanhasNewsExt
hasVideoExtbooleanhasVideoExt
liveCheckedintegerliveChecked
liveBadintegerliveBad
warningsarraywarnings

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event. See the Actor's pricing tab for current rates. You are only charged for successful events — platform usage is passed through transparently.

Part of the Sootesting SEO & Data Toolkit — a suite of focused actors for technical SEO, security auditing, and data extraction.