gulp-sitemap

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

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

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

Install

Install with npm

npm i -D gulp-sitemap

#or use the long and tiring version:
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())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
});

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

Example with all options and their defaults

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: '',
        spacing: '    '
        }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));
});

Options

fileName

Determine the output filename for the sitemap. Default: sitemap.xml.

siteUrl

What is your website's url. This gets prepended to all documents locations. Default: ``.

changeFreq

Gets filled inside the sitemap in the tag <changefreq>. Default: daily.

priority

Gets filled inside the sitemap in the tag <priority>. Default: 0.5.

newLine

How to join line in the target sitemap file. Defaults to your system OS or \n.

spacing

How should the sitemap xml file be spaced. You can use \t for tabs, or with 2 spaces if you'd like. Default: (4 spaces).

Thanks

To grunt-sitemap for the inspiration on writing this.

License

MIT ©2014 Gilad Peleg