A Grunt plugin to automate the creation of sitemaps

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

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-sitemaps --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sitemaps');

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

grunt.initConfig({
    sitemaps: {
      default:{
        options: {
          baseUrl: 'http://www.mysite.com/',
          contentRoot: 'content/'
        },
        files: [{
          expand: true, // Enable dynamic expansion
          cwd: 'content/',
          src: ['**/*.{php,html}', '!exclude/**'] // Actual patterns to match
        }]
      }
    },
});

Type: String Default value: undefined

A string value containing the base url of your site, e.g. 'http://www.mysite.com/'.

Type: String Default value: '.'

A string value that contains the folder to be indexed.

Type: String Default value: '.'

A string value that contains the destination folder the generated sitemap will be written to.

Type: Boolean Default value: 'false'

Set this to true if you want the generator to remove file extensions in urls.

Type: Boolean Default value: 'true'

Set this to false if you don't want the generator to replace index files with their corresponding folders.

In this example, the default options are used to index all html pages in folder content and write the generated sitemap to dist/sitemap.xml.

grunt.initConfig({
    sitemaps: {
      options: {
        baseUrl: 'http://www.mysite.com/',
        contentRoot: 'content/',
        dest: 'dist/'
      },
      files: [{
        expand: true,
        cwd: 'content/',
        src: '**/*.html'
      }]
    }
});

In this example, custom options are used to do index all html pages in folder content and write the generated sitemap to dist/sitemap.xml.

grunt.initConfig({
  sitemaps: {
    options: {
      baseUrl: 'http://www.mysite.com/',
      contentRoot: 'content/',
      dest: 'dist/',
      removeFileExtensions:true,
      mapIndexFilesToFolders: false
    },
    files: [{
      expand: true,
      cwd: 'content/',
      src: ['**/*.{php,html}', '!exclude/**']
    }]
  },
});

Specifying page priorities can be done by matching the URL's absolute path to its priority. Non-matching pages use the default priority.

grunt.initConfig({
  sitemaps: {
    options: {
      priority: '0.6',
      priorities: {
        '/': '1.0',
        '/about-us': '0.8'
      }
    }
  },
});

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.

• 2016-03-02   v0.1.2   Support page priorities.
• 2014-11-15   v0.1.0   Initial release.