Sitemap Finder
Find and check any website's XML sitemap in seconds.
What Is a Sitemap and Why It Matters
An XML sitemap is a file that lists a website's important URLs so search engines can discover and crawl them efficiently. It doesn't guarantee ranking, but it does help search engines find new or updated pages faster.
Reading the Results
| Type | What It Means |
|---|---|
| URL list | A standard sitemap listing page URLs directly. |
| Sitemap index | A sitemap that lists other sitemaps, common on large sites split by content type or date. This tool samples up to 5 sub-sitemaps to estimate a total. |
| Text list | A plain-text file with one URL per line, a simpler alternative some sites use instead of XML. |
Why No Sitemap Was Found
Not every site has one. A missing sitemap doesn't break your site, but it does mean search engines are relying entirely on internal links and external backlinks to discover your pages which is slower and less reliable for large or frequently updated sites.
Most CMS platforms like WordPress, Shopify, Webflow generate one automatically; if our tool found none, check whether sitemap generation is disabled or blocked in robots.txt.
Turn a Sitemap Into Scraped Data
Finding a sitemap is usually step one of a bigger job of auditing website, migrating content, or feeding pages into an AI pipeline. Once Geekflare tool locates a sitemap, you can download the full list of URLs it contains and loop over them with the Geekflare Web Scraping API to pull Markdown, plain text, or structured JSON from every page.
Frequently Asked Questions
We check the site's robots.txt file for a Sitemap, then tries common paths such as /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml, etc. Every found URL is validated to confirm it's a real sitemap.
A sitemap index is a sitemap that lists other sitemaps rather than pages directly. For an index, this tool samples up to 5 of its sub-sitemaps to estimate a total URL count and flags the result as partial when the index has more than 5 sub-sitemaps.
Some sites don't publish one, block automated requests, or host it at a non-standard path. A missing sitemap can slow down how quickly search engines discover new pages, so it's worth adding one if none was found.
Download or copy the list of page URLs pulled from the sitemap, then feed them into the Geekflare Scraping API to extract Markdown, text, or structured data from every page in bulk.
Need this at scale? Try the Web Scraping API.
Found your sitemap? Loop over every URL on it and pull Markdown, text, or structured data in bulk.
curl -X POST https://api.geekflare.com/webscraping \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com/page-1","format":["markdown"]}'