Sitemap URL Extractor

How to use

1. Enter a sitemap address such as https://example.com/sitemap.xml, or just the site’s home page to find its sitemap automatically.
2. If it is a sitemap index, choose “Load all child sitemaps” to collect the URLs from each one.
3. Filter, sort, copy or download the URLs, or send them to the Bulk HTTP Status Checker.

What this tool does

The server downloads the sitemap (up to 10 MB, gzip supported), reads it with a streaming XML parser that never loads external entities, and returns each <loc> with its lastmod, changefreq, priority and the number of image and hreflang entries. For a home page it looks for Sitemap: lines in robots.txt, then the usual locations (/sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml and WordPress’s /wp-sitemap.xml).

Why it matters

Your sitemap is the list of pages you ask search engines to crawl. Checking it reveals redirected, deleted or noindexed URLs that should not be there, and important pages that are missing.

Common uses

• Building a URL list for a content or redirect audit.
• Checking that a sitemap only lists live, indexable pages.

Tips

• Send the list to the Bulk HTTP Status Checker: every sitemap URL should return 200.
• A sitemap file may hold at most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed.

Limitations

• Up to 20 child sitemaps are loaded from an index, and up to 50,000 URLs per sitemap are listed.
• Plain-text and RSS sitemaps are not supported.

Troubleshooting

• “No sitemap could be loaded”: enter the exact sitemap address; some plugins use names like /post-sitemap.xml.
• “Not an XML sitemap”: the address returned an HTML page, often a 404 page that still answers with status 200.