The Python script is used to generate the implementation method of sitemap.xml


Install lxml

The first thing you need to pip install lxml Install the lxml library.

If you encounter the following error on ubuntu:

#include "libxml/xmlversion.h"
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
 Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-O4cIn6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/lxml
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
  status = self.run(options, args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
  requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
  requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 706, in install
  cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/util.py", line 697, in call_subprocess
  % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-O4cIn6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/lxml

Please install the following dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Python code

The following is the code to generate the sitemap and sitemapindex indexes. You can pass in the required parameters or add fields according to the requirements:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import io
import re
from lxml import etree


def generate_xml(filename, url_list):
  """Generate a new xml file use url_list"""
  root = etree.Element('urlset',
             xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9")
  for each in url_list:
    url = etree.Element('url')
    loc = etree.Element('loc')
    loc.text = each
    url.append(loc)
    root.append(url)

  header = u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n'
  s = etree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8', pretty_print=True)
  with io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(unicode(header+s))


def update_xml(filename, url_list):
  """Add new url_list to origin xml file."""
  f = open(filename, 'r')
  lines = [i.strip() for i in f.readlines()]
  f.close()

  old_url_list = []
  for each_line in lines:
    d = re.findall('<loc>(http:\/\/.+)<\/loc>', each_line)
    old_url_list += d
  url_list += old_url_list

  generate_xml(filename, url_list)


def generatr_xml_index(filename, sitemap_list, lastmod_list):
  """Generate sitemap index xml file."""
  root = etree.Element('sitemapindex',
             xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9")
  for each_sitemap, each_lastmod in zip(sitemap_list, lastmod_list):
    sitemap = etree.Element('sitemap')
    loc = etree.Element('loc')
    loc.text = each_sitemap
    lastmod = etree.Element('lastmod')
    lastmod.text = each_lastmod
    sitemap.append(loc)
    sitemap.append(lastmod)
    root.append(sitemap)

  header = u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n'
  s = etree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8', pretty_print=True)
  with io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(unicode(header+s))


if __name__ == '__main__':
  urls = ['http://www.baidu.com'] * 10
  mods = ['2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00'] * 10
  generatr_xml_index('index.xml', urls, mods)

The effect

The resulting effect should look like this:

sitemap formats:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
 <url>
  <loc>http://www.example.com/foo.html</loc>
 </url>
</urlset>

sitemapindex formats:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <sitemap>
   <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz</loc>
   <lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
   <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc>
   <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  </sitemapindex>

Problem with lastmod time format

The format is based on the standard ISO 8601. If it is an linux/unix system, you can get it using the following function

def get_lastmod_time(filename):
  time_stamp = os.path.getmtime(filename)
  t = time.localtime(time_stamp)
  # return time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+08:00', t)
  return time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', t)

To optimize the

1 generally speaking, lxml is inefficient and memory intensive and can be created directly using the write method of the file.

def generate_xml(filename, url_list):
  with gzip.open(filename,"w") as f:
    f.write("""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">\n""")
    for i in url_list:
      f.write("""<url><loc>%s</loc></url>\n"""%i)
    f.write("""</urlset>""")


def append_xml(filename, url_list):
  with gzip.open(filename, 'r') as f:
    for each_line in f:
      d = re.findall('<loc>(http:\/\/.+)<\/loc>', each_line)
      url_list.extend(d)

    generate_xml(filename, set(url_list))


def modify_time(filename):
  time_stamp = os.path.getmtime(filename)
  t = time.localtime(time_stamp)
  return time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S:%SZ', t)


def new_xml(filename, url_list):
  generate_xml(filename, url_list)
  root = dirname(filename)

  with open(join(dirname(root), "sitemap.xml"),"w") as f:
    f.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">\n')
    for i in glob.glob(join(root,"*.xml.gz")):
      lastmod = modify_time(i)
      i = i[len(CONFIG.SITEMAP_PATH):]
      f.write("<sitemap>\n<loc>http:/%s</loc>\n"%i)
      f.write("<lastmod>%s</lastmod>\n</sitemap>\n"%lastmod)
    f.write('</sitemapindex>')

conclusion