Generate sitemaps with ease

This package can generate a sitemap without you having to add urls to it manually. This works by crawling your entire site.

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')->writeToFile($path);

You can also create your sitemap manually:

use Carbon\Carbon;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Sitemap;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

Sitemap::create()

    ->add(Url::create('/home')
        ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::yesterday())
        ->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_YEARLY)
        ->setPriority(0.1))

   ->add(...)

   ->writeToFile($path);

Or you can have the best of both worlds by generating a sitemap and then adding more links to it:

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
   ->getSitemap()
   ->add(Url::create('/extra-page')
        ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::yesterday())
        ->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_YEARLY)
        ->setPriority(0.1))

    ->add(...)

    ->writeToFile($path);

Postcardware

You're free to use this package (it's MIT-licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciated you sending us postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: safaeean, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

All postcards are published on our website.

Installation

First, install the package via composer:

composer require safaeean/laravel-sitemap

Next up: installing the service provider

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider::class,
];

If you want to update your sitemap automatically and frequently you need to perform some extra steps.

Configuration

You can override the default options for the crawler. First publish the configuration:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider" --tag=config

This will copy the default config to config/sitemap.php where you can edit it.

use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

return [

    /*
     * These options will be passed to GuzzleHttp\Client when it is created.
     * For in-depth information on all options see the Guzzle docs:
     *
     * http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/request-options.html
     */
    'guzzle_options' => [

        /*
         * Whether or not cookies are used in a request.
         */
        RequestOptions::COOKIES => true,

        /*
         * The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect to a server.
         * Use 0 to wait indefinitely.
         */
        RequestOptions::CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 10,

        /*
         * The timeout of the request in seconds. Use 0 to wait indefinitely.
         */
        RequestOptions::TIMEOUT => 10,

        /*
         * Describes the redirect behavior of a request.
         */
        RequestOptions::ALLOW_REDIRECTS => false,
    ]

];

Usage

Generating a sitemap

The easiest way is to crawl the given domain and generate a sitemap with all found links. The destination of the sitemap should be specified by $path.

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')->writeToFile($path);

The generated sitemap will look similiar to this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/page</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>

    ...
</urlset>

Customizing the sitemap generator

Changing properties

To change the lastmod, changefreq and priority of the contact page:

use Carbon\Carbon;
use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
   ->hasCrawled(function (Url $url) {
       if ($url->segment(1) === 'contact') {
           $url->setPriority(0.9)
               ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::create('2016', '1', '1'));
       }

       return $url;
   })
   ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Leaving out some links

If you don't want a crawled link to appear in the sitemap, just don't return it in the callable you pass to hasCrawled .

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
   ->hasCrawled(function (Url $url) {
       if ($url->segment(1) === 'contact') {
           return;
       }

       return $url;
   })
   ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Preventing the crawler from crawling some pages

You can also instruct the underlying crawler to not crawl some pages by passing a callable to shouldCrawl.

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use safaeean\Crawler\Url;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
   ->shouldCrawl(function (Url $url) {
       // All pages will be crawled, except the contact page.
       // Links present on the contact page won't be added to the
       // sitemap unless they are present on a crawlable page.
       return $url->segment(1) !== 'contact';
   })
   ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Manually adding links

You can manually add links to a sitemap:

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
    ->getSitemap()
    // here we add one extra link, but you can add as many as you'd like
    ->add(Url::create('/extra-page')->setPriority(0.5))
    ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Adding alternates to links

Multilingual sites may have several alternate versions of the same page (one per language). Based on the previous example adding an alterante can be done as follows:

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')
    ->getSitemap()
    // here we add one extra link, but you can add as many as you'd like
    ->add(Url::create('/extra-page')->setPriority(0.5)->addAlternate('/extra-pagina', 'nl'))
    ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Note the addAlternate function which takes an alternate URL and the locale it belongs to.

Manually creating a sitemap

You can also create a sitemap fully manual:

use Carbon\Carbon;

Sitemap::create()
   ->add('/page1')
   ->add('/page2')
   ->add(Url::create('/page3')->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::create('2016', '1', '1')))
   ->writeToFile($sitemapPath);

Creating a sitemap index

You can create a sitemap index:

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapIndex;

SitemapIndex::create()
    ->add('/pages_sitemap.xml')
    ->add('/posts_sitemap.xml')
    ->writeToFile($sitemapIndexPath);

You can pass a safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Sitemap object to manually set the lastModificationDate property.

use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapIndex;
use safaeean\Sitemap\Tags\Sitemap;

SitemapIndex::create()
    ->add('/pages_sitemap.xml')
    ->add(Sitemap::create('/posts_sitemap.xml')
        ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::yesterday()))
    ->writeToFile($sitemapIndexPath);

the generated sitemap index will look similar to this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <sitemap>
      <loc>http://www.example.com/pages_sitemap.xml</loc>
      <lastmod>2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
   </sitemap>
   <sitemap>
      <loc>http://www.example.com/posts_sitemap.xml</loc>
      <lastmod>2015-12-31T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
   </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Generating the sitemap frequently

Your site will probably be updated from time to time. In order to let your sitemap reflect these changes you can run the generator periodically. The easiest way of doing this is do make use of Laravel's default scheduling capabilities.

You could setup an artisan command much like this one:

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use safaeean\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;

class GenerateSitemap extends Command
{
    /**
     * The console command name.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'sitemap:generate';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Generate the sitemap.';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        // modify this to your own needs
        SitemapGenerator::create(config('app.url'))
            ->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));
    }
}

That command should then be scheduled in the console kernel.

// app/Console/Kernel.php
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    ...
    $schedule->command('sitemap:generate')->daily();
    ...
}

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

First start the test server in a seperate terminal session:

cd tests/server
./start_server.sh

With the server running you can execute the tests:

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

About safaeean

safaeean is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.