Generate a Sitemap from URL (loc) and Last Modified (lastmod) Attributes

Site Map Generator is an open source program used to create a customized site map with two attributes: <loc> and <lastmod>.

<url>
<loc>
https://docs.searchunify.com/Content/Content-Sources/Jive.htm
</loc>
<lastmod>2020-05-07</lastmod>
</url>

It offers several options as well. The most useful is probably -b which is used to specify the file types that shouldn’t be part of the sitemap.

Prerequisites

• Server (or PC) with Python 3 or higher installed
• Server (or PC) with PIP3 installed

Method

1. Go to this page (updated link) and copy the code.
2. Create a file named sitemap_gen.py.

~$ touch sitemap_gen.py

3. Paste the code into sitemap_gen.py.
4. Generate a sitemap.

~$ python3 sitemap_gen.py https://yourwebsite.com/

5. Depending on the size of the website, the command might continue to run for a few minutes. Once it has run its course, a file named sitemap.xml will be created.

Tips

To exclude certain file types from the sitemap, use the argument -b.

~$ python3 sitemap_gen.py -b png -b jpeg https://yourwebsite.com/

The above command puts all the images into the sitemap except for png and jpeg images.