# Sitemap URL Extractor (`blazing_stake/sitemap-url-extractor`) Actor

Extract every URL from any website's sitemap, including nested sitemap indexes (recursive). Auto-discovers sitemaps from robots.txt. Returns URLs with lastmod, changefreq, priority.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blazing\_stake/sitemap-url-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Mehmet Kut](https://apify.com/blazing_stake) (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

from $5.00 / 1,000 url extracteds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Sitemap URL Extractor

Extract **every URL** from any website's sitemap — including nested sitemap indexes, expanded recursively. Just give it a domain and it auto-discovers sitemaps from `robots.txt`.

Perfect as the **first step** in any large-scale scraping or SEO project: get the complete URL inventory of a site, then feed those URLs into your scraper of choice.

### 🎯 What it does

- **Auto-discovers** sitemaps from `robots.txt` (or falls back to `/sitemap.xml`)
- **Recursively expands** sitemap index files into their child sitemaps
- Extracts every URL with **`lastmod`**, **`changefreq`**, and **`priority`**
- Handles huge sitemaps (100,000+ URLs) with configurable limits

### 💡 Use cases

- **Seed URL lists** for large scraping jobs
- **Site inventory / content audits** — see every published page
- **Change monitoring** — track `lastmod` to find recently updated pages
- **SEO analysis** — audit priority & changefreq configuration

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | array | Website domains or direct sitemap URLs |
| `maxSitemaps` | integer | Max sitemap files to fetch (default 200) |
| `maxUrls` | integer | Stop after this many URLs (default 100,000) |
| `useProxy` | boolean | Route via Apify Proxy (default true) |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://example.com"],
  "maxUrls": 50000
}
```

You can pass either a **domain** (`https://example.com` → auto-discovers sitemaps) or a **direct sitemap URL** (`https://example.com/sitemap.xml`).

### 📤 Output

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/some-page",
  "lastmod": "2026-06-01",
  "changefreq": "weekly",
  "priority": "0.8",
  "sourceSitemap": "https://example.com/sitemap/pages.xml"
}
```

### 🔗 Tip

Chain this with the **SEO Meta & Schema Extractor** to run a full-site SEO audit: extract all URLs here, then extract metadata from each.

# Actor input Schema

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

Enter website domains (e.g. https://example.com) to auto-discover sitemaps via robots.txt, or direct sitemap URLs (e.g. https://example.com/sitemap.xml). Sitemap index files are expanded recursively.

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

Safety limit on how many sitemap files (including nested ones) to fetch.

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

Stop after extracting this many URLs.

## `useProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Route requests through Apify Proxy to avoid IP blocking.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://example.com",
    "https://example.com/sitemap.xml"
  ],
  "maxSitemaps": 200,
  "maxUrls": 100000,
  "useProxy": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `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": [
        "https://apify.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blazing_stake/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": ["https://apify.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blazing_stake/sitemap-url-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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": [
    "https://apify.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call blazing_stake/sitemap-url-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=blazing_stake/sitemap-url-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OOKasVyPPNsVaFDxU/builds/H8xHt0ttKnPQhEZcj/openapi.json