grunt-sitemap-xml

Grunt task for generating sitemap.xml

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5 and Node.js 4.0.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-sitemap-xml --save

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sitemap-xml');

The "sitemap_xml" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named sitemap_xml to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  sitemap_xml: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  }
});

Options

options.siteRoot

Type: String Default value: pkg.homepage

A string value that is used to define the site root of the URL. Defaults to homepage from package.json.

options.stripIndex

Type: Boolean Default value: true

A boolean value that is used to determine whether to strip index.html from the URL.

options.trailingSlash

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Should trailing slash be stripped from the URL.

options.lastMod

Type: String Default value: moment().format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ')

The date of last modification of the file. This date should be in W3C Datetime format.

options.priority

Type: String Default value: 0.5

The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0.

options.changeFreq

Type: String Default value: weekly

How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often they crawl the page. Valid values are:

• always
• hourly
• daily
• weekly
• monthly
• yearly
• never

options.pretty

Type: Boolean Default value: false

A boolean value that is used to determine whether print the results indented with spaces

Usage Example

grunt.initConfig({
  sitemap_xml: {
    build: {
      files: [
        {
          cwd: 'app/build',
          src: '{,**/}*.html',
          dest: 'app/build/sitemap.xml'
        }
      ]
    }
  }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

see CHANGELOG.md