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Gap

To demonstrate using a Sitemap to investigate content, we will use the Gap website.

Gap has a well structured website with a Sitemap to help web crawlers locate their updated content. If we use the techniques from Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Scraping, to investigate a website, we would find their robots.txt file at http://www.gap.com/robots.txt, which contains a link to this Sitemap:

Sitemap: http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_index.xml

Here are the contents of the linked Sitemap file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">     <sitemap>         <loc>http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_1.xml</loc>         <lastmod>2017-03-24</lastmod>     </sitemap>     <sitemap>  <loc>http://www.gap.com/products/sitemap_2.xml</loc> ...

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