ApeSmit 0.01

ApeSmit is a very simple Python module to create XML sitemaps as defined at http://www.sitemaps.org. It doesn�t contain any web spider or something like that, it just writes the data you provide to a file using the proper syntax.

apesmit is an anagram of sitemap.

Usage

First we create an instance of SiteMap:

>>> sm=Sitemap(changefreq='weekly')

The changefreq keyword sets a default value for that parameter.

Now we add some URL's to our sitemap:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.com/')

We may use some parameters:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.com/news/', changefreq='daily',
... priority=1.0,
... lastmod='1891-1-1')

There's a shortcut for URL's that changed today:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.org/about.html', lastmod='today')

That's all for now. Next we need a file to write the sitemap in:

>>> out=open('sitemap.xml', 'w')

Now we write our sitemap and then close the file:

>>> sm.write(out)
>>> out.close()

And that's the content of our shiny new sitemap:

< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'? >
< urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" >
< url >
< loc >http://www.example.com/< /loc >
< changefreq >weekly< /changefreq >
< /url >
< url >
< loc >http://www.example.com/news/< /loc >
< lastmod >1891-1-1< /lastmod >
< changefreq >daily< /changefreq >
< priorit >1.0< /priority >
< /url >
< url >
< loc >http://www.example.org/about.html< /loc >
< lastmod >2008-04-03< /lastmod >
< changefreq >weekly< /changefreq >
< /url >
< /urlset >

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