Sitemap

Web Scraping

Definition

A sitemap is an XML file that lists all the URLs on a website, along with metadata like last modification date and priority. It helps search engines and crawlers discover and index all pages efficiently.

How It Relates to CrawlForge

Sitemaps provide a complete inventory of a website's pages without needing to discover them by following links. This makes them invaluable for comprehensive scraping, SEO audits, and content migration where you need to process every page.

CrawlForge map_site generates sitemaps for any domain, discovering URLs through both link-following and existing sitemap files. This gives you a reliable starting point for batch operations with batch_scrape.

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Related Terms

Web Crawler

A web crawler is a program that systematically browses the web by following links from page to page. Crawlers discover and index content across entire websites or domains.

Robots.txt

Robots.txt is a standard text file placed at the root of a website that tells web crawlers which pages they are allowed or disallowed from accessing. It is part of the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

SEO Audit

An SEO audit is a comprehensive analysis of a website's search engine optimization performance. It evaluates technical SEO, on-page content, metadata, site structure, and identifies opportunities for improvement.

Schema Markup

Schema markup is a vocabulary of tags (from schema.org) that you add to HTML to improve how search engines read and represent your page. It defines types like Product, Article, Organization, and their properties.

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