TL;DR
I just released generate-sitemap 1.10.1, a GitHub Action for generating XML sitemaps for static websites. The generate-sitemap GitHub Action is implemented in Python, and generates an XML sitemap by crawling the GitHub repository containing the html of the site, using commit dates to generate <lastmod> tags in the sitemap.
Changelog 1.10.1 – 2024-06-08
Fixed
- Escape characters that must be escaped in XML.
Dependencies
More Information
Please consider starring generate-sitemap’s GitHub repository:
Generate an XML sitemap for a GitHub Pages site using GitHub Actions
Check out all of our GitHub Actions: https://actions.cicirello.org/
The generate-sitemap GitHub action generates a sitemap for a website hosted on GitHub
Pages, and has the following features:
- Support for both xml and txt sitemaps (you choose using one of the action’s inputs).
- When generating an xml sitemap, it uses the last commit date of
each file to generate the<lastmod>tag in the sitemap entry. If the file
was created during that workflow run, but not yet committed, then it instead uses
the current date (however, we recommend if possible committing newly created files first). - Supports URLs for html and pdf files in the sitemap, and has inputs
to control the included file types (defaults include both html and pdf files in the sitemap). - Now also supports including URLs for a user specified list of
additional file extensions in the sitemap. - …
For more information, see my earlier post about generate-sitemap here on DEV, as well as its webpage.
The generate-sitemap GitHub action generates a sitemap for a website hosted on GitHub Pages. Supports both xml and txt sitemaps. Uses the last commit date of each file to generate the lastmod tags in XML sitemaps. Parses robots.txt and scans html files for noindex directives, excluding URLs if noindex directives or disallows found.
actions.cicirello.org Where You Can Find Me
Follow me here on DEV and on GitHub:
Discover more from Coursity
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.