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Submit Multiple URLs in Bulk to the IndexNow API#

submit_urls_to_index_now()#

Submit a list of URLs to the IndexNow API of a search engine.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
authentication IndexNowAuthentication

Authentication credentials for the IndexNow API.

 required
urls list[str]

List of URLs to submit. For example: ["https://example.com/page1", "https://example.com/page2", "https://example.com/page3"]

 required
endpoint SearchEngineEndpoint | str

Select the search engine you want to submit to or use a custom URL as endpoint.

 INDEXNOW

Returns:

Name Type Description
int int

The status code of the response, e.g. 200 for success, 202 for accepted, 400 for bad request, etc.
Example

After adding your authentication credentials to the IndexNowAuthentication class, you can now submit multiple URLs to the IndexNow API:

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from index_now import submit_urls_to_index_now, IndexNowAuthentication

authentication = IndexNowAuthentication(
    host="example.com",
    api_key="a1b2c3d4",
    api_key_location="https://example.com/a1b2c3d4.txt",
)

urls = ["https://example.com/page1", "https://example.com/page2", "https://example.com/page3"]

submit_urls_to_index_now(authentication, urls)

If you want to submit to a specific search engine, alternatively customize the endpoint:

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submit_urls_to_index_now(authentication, urls,
    endpoint="https://www.bing.com/indexnow")