Page Summary
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The Sitemap resource provides detailed information about URLs submitted through a sitemap file, including submission date, download date, and error/warning counts.
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The resource representation includes properties for content types, error/warning numbers, and sitemap metadata like path, type, and processing status.
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A sitemap can contain various content types, including web pages, images, videos, news articles, mobile pages and Android/iOS apps.
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You can manage sitemaps through dedicated methods to delete, retrieve information, list, and submit them.
For a list of methods for this resource, see the end of this page.
Resource representations
Sitemap
Contains detailed information about a specific URL submitted as a sitemap .
{ "path" : string , "lastSubmitted" : datetime , "isPending" : boolean , "isSitemapsIndex" : boolean , "type" : string , "lastDownloaded" : datetime , "warnings" : long , "errors" : long , "contents" : [ { "type" : string , "submitted" : long , "indexed" : long } ] }
Property name
Value
Description
Notes
contents[]
list
The various content types in the sitemap.
contents[].
indexed
N/A
Deprecated; do not use.
contents[].
submitted
long
The number of URLs in the sitemap (of the content type).
contents[].
type
string
The specific type of content in this sitemap. For example:
Acceptable values are:
web
.Acceptable values are:
- "
androidApp" - "
image" - "
iosApp" - "
mobile" - "
news" - "
pattern" - "
video" - "
web"
errors
long
Number of errors in the sitemap. These are issues with the sitemap itself that need to be fixed before it can be processed correctly.
isPending
boolean
If true, the sitemap has not been processed.
isSitemapsIndex
boolean
If true, the sitemap is a collection of sitemaps.
lastDownloaded
datetime
Date & time in which this sitemap was last downloaded. Date format is in RFC 3339 format (yyyy-mm-dd).
lastSubmitted
datetime
Date & time in which this sitemap was submitted. Date format is in RFC 3339 format (yyyy-mm-dd).
path
string
The url of the sitemap.
type
string
The type of the sitemap. For example:
Acceptable values are:
rssFeed
.Acceptable values are:
- "
atomFeed" - "
notSitemap" - "
patternSitemap" - "
rssFeed" - "
sitemap" - "
urlList"
warnings
long
Number of warnings for the sitemap. These are generally non-critical issues with URLs in the sitemaps.
Methods
- delete
- Deletes a sitemap from this site.
- get
- Retrieves information about a specific sitemap.
- list
- Lists the sitemaps-entries
submitted for this site, or included in the sitemap index file (if
sitemapIndexis specified in the request). - submit
- Submits a sitemap for a site.
