Submit an Entire Sitemap to IndexNow#

How to Submit Sitemap URLs in Bulk#

If several pages on your site have changed and you want them all to be reindexed, you can submit an entire sitemap of multiple URLs to the IndexNow API using the submit_sitemap_to_index_now() method:

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from index_now import submit_sitemap_to_index_now, IndexNowAuthentication

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

submit_sitemap_to_index_now(authentication, "https://example.com/sitemap.xml")

Filtering URLs Before Submitting#

Sometimes you want to submit only a subset of the URLs in a sitemap. You can use the contains, skip, and take parameters to filter the URLs before submitting them to the IndexNow API.

For example:

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from index_now import submit_sitemap_to_index_now, IndexNowAuthentication

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

submit_sitemap_to_index_now(authentication, "https://example.com/sitemap.xml", contains="section1", skip=2, take=3)

By Text#

You can limit the sitemap URLs to only those containing a specific text using the contains parameter:

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submit_sitemap_to_index_now(authentication, "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
    contains="section1")

Use Pattern or Regular Expression#

The contains parameter also accepts regular expressions for more advanced filtering. For example, if you want to match URLs that contain either section1 or section2, you can use the following regular expression:

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submit_sitemap_to_index_now(authentication, "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
    contains=r"(section1)|(section2)")

By Amount: Skip and Take#

Let's imagine a sitemap with a 100 URLs. You don't want to submit everything, so you can use the skip and take parameters to skip the first 10 URLs and submit the next 20 URLs:

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submit_sitemap_to_index_now(authentication, "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
    skip=10, take=20)

Order of Filtering Rules#

Let's imagine a sitemap with 9 URLs, the order of the contains, skip, and take parameters will filter the URLs like this: