Awesome

Next.js sitemap generator

Generate dynamic sitemap.xml for Next.js projects following the example of Google!

Support for nextjs.config.js
Support for dynamic routes
Support for localization
Support for multiple sitemaps

Checkout the examples folder for source code.

Documentation

Installation
Quick start
Sitemap methods
Sitemap options
Useful information
- Language localisation
- Gzip

Installation

Open a Terminal in the project root and run:

npm install @sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap

yarn add @sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap

Quick start

Example src folder:

└── src
    └── pages
        ├── projects
        │   ├── computers
        │   │   ├── laptop.js
        │   │   └── pc.js
        │   └── phones
        │       ├── android.js
        │       └── ios.js
        ├── admin
        │   ├── account.js
        │   └── cms.js
        └── index.js

All static routes from pages folder will be automatically added to the sitemap.

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  domains: [{ domain: 'example.com', defaultLocale: 'en', http: true }],
  exclude: ['/admin/*'],
  excludeIndex: true,
  pagesConfig: {
    '/projects/*': {
      priority: '0.5',
      changefreq: 'daily',
    },
  },
  trailingSlash: true,
  targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
  pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

<details><summary>Look at the generated <code>sitemap.xml</code></summary>

<?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"
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <url>
        <loc>http://example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://example.com/projects/computers/laptop/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/projects/computers/laptop/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://example.com/projects/computers/pc/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/projects/computers/pc/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://example.com/projects/phones/android/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/projects/phones/android/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://example.com/projects/phones/ios/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/projects/phones/ios/" />
    </url>
</urlset>

</details>

With exportPathMap

If you specify nextConfigPath prop, then all values indicated in the exportPathMap will be automatically added (pages folder will be ignored).

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  exclude: ['/admin'],
  excludeIndex: true,
  pagesConfig: {
    '/p/*': {
      priority: '0.5',
      changefreq: 'daily',
    },
  },
  nextConfigPath: __dirname + '/next.config.js',
  targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
  pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

<details><summary>Example of <code>exportPathMap</code> in <code>next.config.js</code></summary>

module.exports = {
  i18n: {
    domains: [
      {
        domain: 'example.com',
        defaultLocale: 'en',
        locales: ['en-US', 'en-CA'],
      },
    ],
  },
  trailingSlash: true,
  exportPathMap: async function () {
    return {
      '/': { page: '/' },
      '/admin': { page: '/admin' },
      '/p/learn-nextjs': { page: '/post', query: { title: 'learn-nextjs' } },
    };
  },
};

</details> <details><summary>Look at the generated <code>sitemap.xml</code></summary>

<?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"
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en-US/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en-CA/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/p/learn-nextjs/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/p/learn-nextjs/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en-US/p/learn-nextjs/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/p/learn-nextjs/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en-CA/p/learn-nextjs/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://example.com/en-US/p/learn-nextjs/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-CA/p/learn-nextjs/" />
    </url>
</urlset>

</details>

With dynamic routes

For dynamic routes, you have to declare them with the include property.

Example src folder:

└── src
    └── pages
        ├── project
        │   └── [id].js
        └── index.js

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

async function fetchDynamicPaths() {
  return ['house', 'flower', 'table'];
}

async function getDynamicPaths() {
  const paths = await fetchDynamicPaths();

  return paths.map((item) => `/project/${item}`);
}

getDynamicPaths().then((paths) => {
  const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
    domains: [{ domain: 'example.com', defaultLocale: 'en' }],
    include: paths,
    exclude: ['/project/*'],
    excludeIndex: true,
    pagesConfig: {
      '/project/*': {
        priority: '0.5',
        changefreq: 'daily',
      },
    },
    trailingSlash: true,
    targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
    pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
  });

  Sitemap.generateSitemap();
});

<details><summary>Look at the generated <code>sitemap.xml</code></summary>

<?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"
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/project/house/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/project/house/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/project/flower/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/project/flower/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/project/table/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-12</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/project/table/" />
    </url>
</urlset>

</details>

With localization

If you have localization, you can use locales in domains prop.

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  domains: [{ domain: 'example.com', locales: ['en', 'es'] }],
  excludeIndex: true,
  trailingSlash: true,
  targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
  pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

<details><summary>Look at the generated <code>sitemap.xml</code></summary>

<?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"
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en/about/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/about/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/about/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/es/about/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/about/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/about/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/es/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/en/works/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/works/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/works/" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://example.com/es/works/</loc>
        <lastmod>2021-09-10</lastmod>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/works/" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/works/" />
    </url>
</urlset>

</details>

Multiple sitemaps

If the number of urls is more than 50000, then several sitemaps will be automatically created. You can customize the number of urls using sitemapSize

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  sitemapUrl: 'https://www.example.com',
  sitemapSize: 5000,
  pagesConfig: {
    '/p/*': {
      priority: '0.5',
      changefreq: 'daily',
    },
  },
  nextConfigPath: __dirname + '/next.config.js',
  targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
  pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

<details><summary>Look at <code>public</code> directory</summary>

└── src
    └── public
        ├── sitemap.xml
        ├── sitemap1.xml
        ├── sitemap2.xml
        └── sitemap3.xml

</details>

Sitemap methods

`generateSitemap`: `() => Promise<ISitemapWriterResultItem[]>`;

Generate sitemap

ISitemapWriterResultItem {
  name: string; // sitemap file name
  count: number; // number of urls
}

`regenerateSitemapIndex`: `(sitemapsNames: string[]) => void`;

When there are multiple sitemaps, a sitemap index is generated. If we somehow changed our sitemaps externally, then you can use this function to update sitemap index

Sitemap options

`domains` (`optional`): `IDomain[]`

Domain list - same as in next.config.js.

IDomain {
  domain: string; // domain name
  defaultLocale?: string; // non-routing language
  locales?: string[]; // routing languages
  http?: boolean; // http or https
}

`exclude` (`optional`): `string[]`

The exclude parameter is an array of glob patterns to exclude static routes / folders from the generated sitemap.

`excludeExtensions` (`optional`): `string[]`

Ignore files by extension.

Example:

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  // ...
  excludeExtensions: ['.ts'],
  // ...
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

`excludeIndex` (`optional`): `boolean`

Remove index from URL, directory will be ending with the slash. Defaults to true.

`include` (`optional`): `string[]`

Array of extra paths to include in the sitemap. If you want to add any route with dynamic parameters, you have to set an array of dynamic routes.

Example:

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  // ...
  include: ['/project/1', '/project/2'],
  exclude: ['/project/[id]'], // or exclude: ['/project/*']
  // ...
});
Sitemap.generateSitemap();

`trailingSlash` (`optional`): `boolean`

Add trailing slashes. Defaults to false.

`nextConfigPath` (`optional`): `string`

Use exportPathMap from next.config.js file.

`pagesConfig` (`optional`): `IPagesConfig[]`

Object configuration of priority and changefreq per route / folder.

IPagesConfig {
  [key: string]: { 
    priority: string,
    changefreq: string 
  }
}

Example:

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  // ...
  pagesConfig: {
    '/about': {
      priority: '0.5',
      changefreq: 'daily',
    },
    '/project/*': {
      priority: '0.9',
      changefreq: 'daily',
    },
  },
  // ...
});

Sitemap.generateSitemap();

`pagesDirectory` (`required`): `string`

The directory where there are Next.js pages.

`targetDirectory` (`required`): `string`

The path to the public folder.

`sitemapUrl` (`optional`): `string`

The url which will be specified in the sitemap index file.

`sitemapSize` (`optional`): `number`

Maximum number of url in one sitemap file. Defaults to 50000.

`sitemapStylesheet` (`optional`): `ISitemapStylesheet[]`

Array of style objects that will be applied to sitemap.

ISitemapStylesheet {
  type: string;
  styleFile: string;
}

Example:

// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
  // ...
  sitemapStylesheet: [
    {
      type: "text/css",
      styleFile: "styles/styles.css"
    },
    {
      type: "text/xsl",
      styleFile: "styles/styles.xls"
    }
  ],
  // ...
});
Sitemap.generateSitemap();

Useful information

Language localisation

The value of the hreflang attribute identifies the language (in ISO 639-1 format) and optionally a region (in ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 format) of an alternate URL.

Gzip

You can gzip your sitemap.xml. The .gz extension just means that it's been compressed (using gzip compression), so that it's smaller and served faster. Most search engine bots can read gzip'd compressed content.

<details><summary>Look at code how you can generate <code>sitemap.xml.gz</code></summary>

// import zlib from 'zlib';
// import fs from 'fs';
// import { configureSitemap } from '@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap';

const zlib = require('zlib');
const fs = require('fs');
const { configureSitemap } = require('@sergeymyssak/nextjs-sitemap');

async function getDynamicPaths() {
  const data = ['house', 'flower', 'table'];
  return data.map((item) => `/project/${item}`);
}

getDynamicPaths().then((paths) => {
  const Sitemap = configureSitemap({
    domains: [{ domain: 'example.com', defaultLocale: 'en' }],
    include: paths,
    exclude: ['/project/*'],
    excludeIndex: true,
    pagesConfig: {
      '/project/*': {
        priority: '0.5',
        changefreq: 'daily',
      },
    },
    trailingSlash: true,
    targetDirectory: __dirname + '/public',
    pagesDirectory: __dirname + '/src/pages',
  });

  Sitemap.generateSitemap().then(() => {
    const inp = fs.createReadStream('public/sitemap.xml');
    const out = fs.createWriteStream('public/sitemap.xml.gz');
    const gzip = zlib.createGzip();
    inp.pipe(gzip).pipe(out);
    fs.unlink('public/sitemap.xml', () =>
      console.log('Sitemap.xml has been deleted!'),
    );
    console.log('Sitemap.xml.gz has been created!');
  });
});

</details>

Awesome

Next.js sitemap generator

Documentation

Installation

Quick start

With exportPathMap

With dynamic routes

With localization

Multiple sitemaps

Sitemap methods

generateSitemap: () => Promise<ISitemapWriterResultItem[]>;

regenerateSitemapIndex: (sitemapsNames: string[]) => void;

Sitemap options

domains (optional): IDomain[]

exclude (optional): string[]

excludeExtensions (optional): string[]

excludeIndex (optional): boolean

include (optional): string[]

trailingSlash (optional): boolean

nextConfigPath (optional): string

pagesConfig (optional): IPagesConfig[]

pagesDirectory (required): string

targetDirectory (required): string

sitemapUrl (optional): string

sitemapSize (optional): number

sitemapStylesheet (optional): ISitemapStylesheet[]

Useful information

Language localisation

Gzip

`generateSitemap`: `() => Promise<ISitemapWriterResultItem[]>`;

`regenerateSitemapIndex`: `(sitemapsNames: string[]) => void`;

`domains` (`optional`): `IDomain[]`

`exclude` (`optional`): `string[]`

`excludeExtensions` (`optional`): `string[]`

`excludeIndex` (`optional`): `boolean`

`include` (`optional`): `string[]`

`trailingSlash` (`optional`): `boolean`

`nextConfigPath` (`optional`): `string`

`pagesConfig` (`optional`): `IPagesConfig[]`

`pagesDirectory` (`required`): `string`

`targetDirectory` (`required`): `string`

`sitemapUrl` (`optional`): `string`

`sitemapSize` (`optional`): `number`

`sitemapStylesheet` (`optional`): `ISitemapStylesheet[]`