Sitemap URL Extractor

What does Sitemap URL Extractor do?

It collects every URL a website publishes in its XML sitemaps, without crawling the site page by page.

• Finds sitemaps automatically from robots.txt and common locations (/sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml)
• Follows sitemap indexes to any depth and reads gzipped (.xml.gz) sitemaps
• Returns each URL with lastmod, changefreq, priority, image count, video flag and hreflang languages
• Include / exclude regex filters so you only get, for example, /blog/ or /product/ URLs
• De-duplicates URLs per site

Use cases

• SEO audits: get the full list of indexable pages, find stale pages by lastmod, compare the sitemap with what is actually ranking
• Content inventories and site migrations: export every URL before you move a site
• Monitoring: schedule it and compare runs to see which pages a competitor added
• Feeding other tools: pass the URLs to a status checker, SEO audit, or your own scraper

How to use it

1. Enter websites (like apify.com) or direct sitemap URLs.
2. Optional: set a regex in Only URLs matching, such as /blog/.
3. Run and export as CSV, JSON or Excel.

Input example

{ "startUrls": ["apify.com"], "maxUrlsPerSite": 200, "includePattern": "/store/" }

Output example

{
  "url": "https://apify.com/store/categories/ai",
  "lastmod": "2026-10-20",
  "changefreq": null,
  "priority": null,
  "imageCount": 0,
  "alternateLanguages": [],
  "sitemapUrl": "https://apify.com/sitemap/pages.xml",
  "domain": "apify.com"
}

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
URL extracted	$0.0005 per URL

1,000 URLs cost about $0.50. Filtered-out URLs are not charged. Use Maximum URLs per site or a run cost limit to stay in budget.

Notes

• Only sitemap files are downloaded, not the pages themselves, so runs are fast and light on the target site.
• Sitemaps disallowed by robots.txt are skipped by default.
• If a site has no sitemap, the run summary says so and nothing is charged for that site.