# Sitemap URL Extractor: All Page URLs, lastmod & Priority (`spbros/website-sitemap-url-extractor`) Actor

Extract every URL from any website's XML sitemaps. Auto-discovers sitemaps via robots.txt and common paths, follows nested sitemap indexes, supports .gz and text sitemaps, regex filters. Returns lastmod, changefreq, priority, hreflang alternates and image counts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/spbros/website-sitemap-url-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Hansol Jung](https://apify.com/spbros) (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

$0.30 / 1,000 url results

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 Page URLs, lastmod & Priority

Get a **complete list of a website's page URLs** from its XML sitemaps in seconds. Give it a homepage and it finds the sitemaps for you (robots.txt `Sitemap:` lines, then `/sitemap.xml`, `/sitemap_index.xml`, `/wp-sitemap.xml`…), follows **nested sitemap indexes**, unpacks **.xml.gz**, reads plain-text sitemaps, and returns one clean row per URL.

### Use cases

- **SEO audits & migrations**: export every indexable URL with `lastmod` to compare before/after a redesign.
- **Crawler seeding**: feed URLs to Website Content Crawler, screenshot or price-monitoring actors instead of blind crawling.
- **Content monitoring**: schedule it and diff `lastmod` to detect new or updated pages (blog posts, products, docs).
- **Competitor research**: count products, categories or articles a competitor publishes.

### Output fields

`url, lastmod, changefreq, priority, imageCount, alternates (hreflang), sitemapUrl, domain, startUrl, scrapedAt`

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/blog/post-1",
  "lastmod": "2026-09-30",
  "changefreq": "weekly",
  "priority": 0.8,
  "imageCount": 2,
  "alternates": [{"hreflang": "de", "href": "https://example.com/de/blog/post-1"}],
  "sitemapUrl": "https://example.com/post-sitemap.xml",
  "domain": "example.com"
}
```

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| startUrls | Homepages (auto-discovery) or direct sitemap URLs |
| maxUrls | Hard cap on total URLs (and cost) |
| maxSitemaps | Max sitemap files downloaded per site |
| includePatterns / excludePatterns | Regex filters, e.g. `/blog/` |

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: **$0.0003 per URL** (10,000 URLs = $3). No start fee. Duplicates are removed before charging.

### Notes

- Fast HTTP-only (no browser), so runs are cheap and quick.
- Reads only public sitemap files that site owners publish for crawlers. No login, no personal data.
- If a site has no sitemap, the run logs a warning and returns no rows for that site (you are not charged).

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Website homepages (sitemaps are auto-discovered from robots.txt and common paths) or direct sitemap URLs (.xml, .xml.gz, .txt).

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

Hard cap on extracted URLs in total (and cost).

## `maxSitemaps` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on how many sitemap files are downloaded per site.

## `includePatterns` (type: `array`):

Only keep URLs matching at least one regex, e.g. /blog/ or /products/.

## `excludePatterns` (type: `array`):

Drop URLs matching any of these regexes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxUrls": 1000,
  "maxSitemaps": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Results in the default dataset (Overview view).

## `results` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apify.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("spbros/website-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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }] }

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,spbros/website-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/Z3oXQQlwdRSpcCPZh/builds/fzf43aB5Ac94R2HtR/openapi.json