Simple Sitemap

This is a simple sitemap module that allows an easy way of adding pages to a sitemap, with per-page configuration. Additionally, the package features a couple additional goodies not found in other sitemap packages: it automatically handles multiple sitemaps for sites over 50,000 pages, and automatically submits sitemaps to both Google and Bing.

Installation

npm install simple-sitemap

Usage

The constructor takes two arguments, your site's root domain, and an optional distribution path. If you don't specify a distribution path, the script will write the sitemap(s) to root by default.

 
var Sitemap = require('simple-sitemap');
 
// Set up the Sitemap module
 
var sitemap = new Sitemap("www.yourdomain.com", "/dist");
 
// Add a page to the sitemap
 
sitemap.add("http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html");
 
// Flush the sitemap to disk and submit to Bing and Google
 
sitemap.flush(function(){
    //whatever you do next
});

Methods

The module has the following methods:

.add(url, changeFrequency, priority - Adds a URL to the sitemap, optionally setting the change frequency and priority for the page. Arguments for the method are:

• url (String | required) - the absolute URL for the page you're adding.
• changeFrequency (String | optional, default: "Daily") - change frequency for the page. Check sitemaps.org for valid values.
• priority (Float | optional, default: 0.5) - a number between 0 and 1.0 indicating the priority of this URL. Check sitemaps.org for more details on this number.

.flush(callback) - writes the sitemap to disk and submits to Google and Bing. Generally, you'll want to call this once you're finished adding URLs to the sitemap. This method is used internally to automagically handle writing sitemaps to disk in the case of sites with more thatn 50,000 pages.

Takes a callback that will run when it's finished submitting to Google and Bing.

Other Tidbits of Interest

Sitemaps are named with a count appended to the end of the filename by default. For example, most small sites will end up with a sitemap called sitemap-01.xml. This appended value will increase based on the number of sitemaps automatically created.