Sitemap Inspect

Fetch and inspect a sitemap or sitemap index. Returns sitemap URLs or page URLs as structured JSON.

GET /api/sitemap-inspect

Try it

{
  "ok": true,
  "input_url": "https://example.com",
  "sitemap_url": "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
  "final_url": "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
  "status": 200,
  "content_type": "application/xml",
  "format": "urlset",
  "sitemaps": [],
  "urls": [
    {
      "loc": "https://example.com/",
      "lastmod": "2026-01-05",
      "changefreq": "daily",
      "priority": "1.0"
    }
  ],
  "xml_truncated": false,
  "entries_truncated": false,
  "meta": {
    "responseTimeMs": 76,
    "cached": false,
    "rateLimitedScope": "global"
  },
  "error": null
}

What it returns

• •sitemap_url — the sitemap URL TinyUtils inspected
• •format — sitemap_index or urlset
• •sitemaps — entries from sitemap index files
• •urls — page entries from urlset files
• •xml_truncated and entries_truncated — indicate partial results due to response size or entry limits
• •status and content_type — upstream response details
• •error — error code if inspection failed

Use cases

• •Verify sitemap output after deploys
• •Inspect large sitemap indexes in scripts
• •Check whether a sitemap URL returns XML
• •Pull URL lists for SEO and crawl audits
• •Debug sitemap redirects and hosting issues

Quick API examples

curl "https://tinyutils.dev/api/sitemap-inspect?url=https://example.com"

const res = await fetch(
  "https://tinyutils.dev/api/sitemap-inspect?url=https://example.com"
);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.format, data.urls.length, data.sitemaps.length);