Sitemap scraping means extracting URLs from a website sitemap.
A sitemap is an XML file that lists pages on a website. Many sites expose it at:
https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Scraping the sitemap gives you a clean list of URLs before you run SEO checks, metadata extraction, AI scraping, or competitor research.
What sitemap scraping returns
A sitemap scraper usually returns:
- Page URL
- Last modified date, when available
Some websites use a sitemap index that links to many sitemap files. A good sitemap scraper follows those linked files.
🔍 Why it helps
A sitemap can reveal pages that are hard to find from menus, search pages, or manual browsing.
Sitemap scraping use cases
Use sitemap scraping to:
- Build a URL inventory for an SEO audit
- Find product or category pages on ecommerce sites
- Collect blog posts from a competitor
- Create a URL list before AI web scraping
- Check which pages changed recently
Datablist sitemap workflows
Use the Sitemap Scraper to import sitemap URLs into a Datablist collection.
After import, run:
- Fetch Meta Data from URLs to collect titles and descriptions
- Website AI Scraper to extract structured data
- Data cleaning workflows to filter, deduplicate, and export URLs
If the site does not expose a sitemap, use Google search scraping or a crawler workflow instead.