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URL INVENTORY

Sitemap URL Extractor

Extract a clean URL inventory from any sitemap.

Extract all URLs from sitemap.xml files.

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What is a Sitemap?

A sitemap is an XML file that lists all important page URLs on a website. It helps search engines like Google and Bing crawl and index website content more effectively, making it an essential SEO tool.

Sitemap files are typically located in the website root directory, such as https://example.com/sitemap.xml, containing information about each page including URL, last modified date, update frequency, and priority.

Why Extract URLs from Sitemap?

  • SEO Audit: Quickly get a list of all website pages for SEO analysis and optimization
  • Content Migration: Extract URLs in bulk for redirect configuration during website migration or restructuring
  • Competitor Analysis: Analyze competitor website structure and content distribution
  • Batch Testing: Extract URL lists for performance testing, availability checks, or automated testing
  • Data Collection: Provide complete URL lists for web scrapers to improve collection efficiency

Common Sitemap Formats

This tool supports standard XML sitemap formats, including:

  • Standard Sitemap: Basic format with <url> and <loc> tags
  • Sitemap Index: Index file containing links to multiple sitemap files
  • Image Sitemap: Sitemap format specifically for image URLs
  • Video Sitemap: Sitemap format containing video content information

Tips & Best Practices

  • Most websites have their sitemap at /sitemap.xml or /sitemap_index.xml
  • Check the website's robots.txt file to find the sitemap location
  • For large sitemap files, consider pasting XML content directly instead of using URL method
  • Extracted URLs can be imported into Excel, databases, or other tools for further analysis
  • This tool runs entirely in your browser and does not store or upload your sitemap data

Sitemap URL Extractor Help, Examples, and FAQ

Usage Guide

The Sitemap URL Extractor pulls page URLs from sitemap.xml files or sitemap index files. It is useful for SEO audits, migrations, batch checks, and content inventory work. Enter a sitemap URL to fetch and parse it, or paste XML directly. Large sites often split sitemaps into multiple child files; the tool now expands sitemapindex child sitemaps automatically and returns the final page URLs. After exporting URLs, group them by path, locale, section, or date, then look for duplicates, wrong protocols, legacy domains, test paths, and pages that should not be indexed.

Examples

  • Before a redesign, extract old URLs for redirect mapping and launch QA.
  • During an SEO audit, export URLs and batch-check status codes, canonical tags, titles, and indexability.
  • For competitor research, inspect site structure, content scale, and language distribution.

FAQ

  • Why does URL fetching fail? The target may block cross-origin requests, restrict crawling, or expose sitemap elsewhere.
  • Are sitemap indexes fully expanded? Yes. When you enter a sitemapindex URL or paste index XML, the tool fetches child sitemaps and returns their page URLs.
  • Is this every page on the site? Not always. A sitemap is only the set of URLs the site chooses to declare.

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