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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

by Anish Chapagain
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sitemaps

A sitemap.xml file is an XML file that holds the information related to page URLs. Maintaining a sitemap is an easy way to inform search engines about the URLs the website contains. Search-engine-based scripts crawl the links in sitemaps and use the links found for indexing and various purposes such as search engine optimization (SEO).

URLs found inside a sitemap generally exist with additional information such as created date, modified date, new URL, removed URL, and many more. These are normally found wrapped in XML tags. In this case, we have <sitemap> with <loc>, as shown in the following screenshot:

Sitemap content from https://www.samsclub.com/ ...
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ISBN: 9781789533392