gulp-sitemap

Generate a search engine friendly sitemap.xml using a Gulp stream

Easily generate a search engine friendly sitemap.xml from your project.

Search engines love the sitemap.xml and it helps SEO as well.

Install

Install with npm

$ npm install --save-dev gulp-sitemap

Example

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sitemap = require('gulp-sitemap');

gulp.task('sitemap', function () {
    gulp.src('build/**/*.html', {
        read: false
    }).pipe(sitemap({
            siteUrl: 'http://www.amazon.com'
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
});

• File content isn't necessary when reading files. To speed up building use {read:false} with gulp.src.
• index.html will be turned into directory path /.
• 404.html will be skipped automatically. No need to unglob it.

Options

siteUrl

required

Your website's base url. This gets prepended to all documents locations.

Type: String

fileName

Determine the output filename for the sitemap.

Type: String

Default: sitemap.xml

changeFreq

Gets filled inside the sitemap in the tag <changefreq>.

Type: String

Default: daily

priority

Gets filled inside the sitemap in the tag <priority>.

Type: String

Default: 0.5

newLine

How to join line in the target sitemap file.

Type: String

Default: Your OS's new line, mostly: \n

spacing

How should the sitemap xml file be spaced. You can use \t for tabs, or with 2 spaces if you'd like.

Type: String

Default: (4 spaces)

stripExtensions

Strip the extension of the files being processed. /some-page.html becomes /some-page

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Example usage with default options

var gulp = require('gulp');
var sitemap = require('gulp-sitemap');

gulp.task('sitemap', function () {
    gulp.src('build/**/*.html', {
        read: false
    }).pipe(sitemap({
        fileName: 'sitemap.xml',
        newLine: '\n',
        changeFreq: 'daily',
        priority: '0.5',
        siteUrl: '', // no default - this is a required param
        spacing: '    ',
        stripExtensions: false
        }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
});

Thanks

To grunt-sitemap for the inspiration on writing this.

License

MIT ©2014 Gilad Peleg