How to create XML sitemap programmatically in c#

Question

I am building an website. Now I want to create its xml site map like google site map. But I want to create it programmatically using C#.

Can anybody tell me how I can access the root directory on the web server using base url of my website get all the pages list into a string list?

Answer 1

You can have a look at this NuGet package (that support .Net and .Net Core) https://www.nuget.org/packages/xsitemap/

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var sitemap = new Sitemap();

        sitemap.Add(new Url
        {
            ChangeFrequency = ChangeFrequency.Daily,
            Location = "http://www.example.com",
            Priority = 0.5,
            TimeStamp = DateTime.Now
        });

        sitemap.Add(CreateUrl("http://www.example.com/link1"));
        sitemap.Add(CreateUrl("http://www.example.com/link2"));
        sitemap.Add(CreateUrl("http://www.example.com/link3"));
        sitemap.Add(CreateUrl("http://www.example.com/link4"));
        sitemap.Add(CreateUrl("http://www.example.com/link5"));


        //Save sitemap structure to file
        sitemap.Save(@"d:\www\example.com\sitemap.xml");

        //Split a large list into pieces and store in a directory
        sitemap.SaveToDirectory(@"d:\www\example.com\sitemaps");

        //Get xml-content of file
        Console.Write(sitemap.ToXml());

        Console.ReadKey();
    }

    private static Url CreateUrl(string url)
    {
        return new Url
        {
            ChangeFrequency = ChangeFrequency.Daily,
            Location = url,
            Priority = 0.5,
            TimeStamp = DateTime.Now
        };
    }
}

The original project is available here https://github.com/ernado-x/X.Web.Sitemap

Et voilà ! :)

Answer 2

I have made this library which makes it quite easy to create google sitemaps from a class or list a of urls.

https://github.com/aseemgautam/google-sitemap

Answer 3

come easy

private void GenerateXML()
    {
        try
        {
            string fileName         = "sitemap.xml";

            string DOMAIN           = "http://www.sohel-elite.com";
            string LAST_MODIFY= String.Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", DateTime.Now);
            string CHANGE_FREQ      = "monthly";
            string TOP_PRIORITY     = "0.5";
            string MEDIUM_PRIORITY  = "0.8";

            XNamespace ns    = "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9";
            XNamespace xsiNs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";

            //XDocument Start
            XDocument xDoc = new XDocument(
                new XDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", "no"),
                new XElement(ns + "urlset",
                new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "xsi", xsiNs),
                new XAttribute(xsiNs + "schemaLocation",
                    "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"),
                new XElement(ns + "url",

                    //Root Element
                    new XElement(ns + "loc",        DOMAIN),
                    new XElement(ns + "lastmod",    LAST_MODIFY),
                    new XElement(ns + "changefreq", "weekly"),
                    new XElement(ns + "priority",   TOP_PRIORITY)),

                    //Level0 Menu
                    from level0 in GetParentCMSMenu()
                        select new XElement(ns + "url",
                            new XElement(ns + "loc", String.Concat(DOMAIN, WebsiteHelpers.GetMenuRouteURL(Util.Parse<string>(level0.MENU_ALLIAS), Util.Parse<string>((level0.Level1 == null) ? string.Empty : level0.Level1), Util.Parse<int>(level0.APPLICATION_ID)))),
                            new XElement(ns + "lastmod",    LAST_MODIFY),
                            new XElement(ns + "changefreq", CHANGE_FREQ),
                            new XElement(ns + "priority",   MEDIUM_PRIORITY)
                        ),

                    //Level1 Menu
                    from level0 in GetParentCMSMenu()
                       from level1 in GetLevel1Menu(Util.Parse<int>(level0.MENU_ID))
                            select new XElement(ns + "url",
                                new XElement(ns + "loc", String.Concat(DOMAIN, WebsiteHelpers.GetMenuRouteURL(Util.Parse<string>(level1.Level1), Util.Parse<string>((level1.MENU_ALLIAS == null) ? string.Empty : level1.MENU_ALLIAS), Util.Parse<int>(level1.APPLICATION_ID)))),
                                new XElement(ns + "lastmod",    LAST_MODIFY),
                                new XElement(ns + "changefreq", CHANGE_FREQ),
                                new XElement(ns + "priority",   MEDIUM_PRIORITY)
                            ),

                    //Level2 Menu
                    from level0 in GetParentCMSMenu()
                        from level1 in GetLevel1Menu(Util.Parse<int>(level0.MENU_ID))
                            from level2 in GetLevel2Menu(Util.Parse<int>(level1.MENU_ID))
                                select new
                                    XElement(ns + "url",
                                    new XElement(ns + "loc", String.Concat(DOMAIN, WebsiteHelpers.GetMenuRouteURL(Util.Parse<string>(level2.Menu), Util.Parse<string>(level2.Level1), Util.Parse<int>(level2.AppID), Util.Parse<string>(level2.Level2)))),
                                    new XElement(ns + "lastmod", LAST_MODIFY),
                                    new XElement(ns + "changefreq", CHANGE_FREQ),
                                    new XElement(ns + "priority", MEDIUM_PRIORITY)
                                )

            ));
            //XDocument End

            xDoc.Save(Server.MapPath("~/") + fileName);

            this.MessageHolder.Visible = true;
            this.MessageHolder.Attributes.Add("class", "success");
            this.MessageHolder.InnerHtml = "Sitemap.xml created successfully";

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            this.MessageHolder.Visible = true;
            this.MessageHolder.Attributes.Add("class", "error");
            this.MessageHolder.InnerHtml = Constants.ERROR_LONG_MESSAGE + "<br/>" + ex.ToString();
        }
    }

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