Sitemap API for News Monitoring

Before you start

• A SitemapKit API key stored in a server-side environment variable.
• A target domain or sitemap URL and a clear success criterion for the news monitoring workflow.

Implementation workflow

1. 1

   Define the workflow objective

   Start from this concrete goal: Monitor news sitemaps for fresh articles in real-time

2. 2

   Request the sitemap data

   Use the implementation example below from server-side code and pass the target domain or sitemap URL required by the workflow.

3. 3

   Validate and reuse the result

   Check the returned sitemap URLs and page records against the expected outcome for news monitoring before sending the data to the next system.

Why use SitemapKit?

• Detect new articles within minutes of publication
• Monitor multiple news sources simultaneously
• Filter by publication date using lastmod
• Build custom news aggregation pipelines

Implementation example

# Check for new articles published today
curl -X POST https://sitemapkit.com/api/v1/sitemap/full \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"url": "news-site.com"}' | \
  jq '[.urls[] | select(.lastmod > "2025-03-15")] | length'

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