Sitemap URL Extractor

So the tool stays instant and your browser stays responsive — a single sitemap may legally hold 50,000 URLs, and an index can point at hundreds of them. When a sitemap is larger than the cap the summary says how many URLs it actually contains, and you can paste any child sitemap's own URL to get its full list. For a whole-site export of a very large site, a crawler like Screaming Frog is the right tool.

Paste the full URL of the file instead of just the domain. If you only enter a domain, the tool tries /sitemap.xml, then /sitemap_index.xml (the Yoast and Rank Math default), and finally reads the Sitemap: line from robots.txt — which is where every crawler looks too, so if your file is somewhere unusual, that line is worth adding.

A sitemap lists pages. A sitemap index lists other sitemaps, and is how sites get around the 50,000-URL and 50 MB per-file limits. The tool detects which one it is looking at: for an index it reads the first five child sitemaps and merges their URLs, and lists every child so you can see which ones were not read.

Yes. Gzipped sitemaps (.xml.gz) are detected from the file contents, not the extension, so mislabelled files still work. Plain-text sitemaps — one absolute URL per line — and RSS or Atom feeds, which Google also accepts as sitemaps, are parsed too. lastmod dates are included whenever the file provides them.

Paste it into a bulk status checker to find pages that now 404, diff it against a crawl to spot pages the sitemap has forgotten, feed it to a broken-link or performance tool that takes a URL list, or sort the CSV by lastmod to see which sections of a site have gone stale. It is also the fastest way to see what a competitor considers their important pages.