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Tabitha

Chrome extension

Sitemap Explorer

See the whole site as a tree, then send a branch to the scraper.

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The explorer reads the sitemap, follows the sitemap index files and builds a tree of the site by address structure, with a count on every branch. That is how you learn what is there before you extract any of it.

When a site publishes no sitemap, it crawls politely from the home page to a depth you set. Either way you end up with a branch you can hand to the page extractor without pasting a single address.

Screenshot coming with the tool. Nothing here is a drawing, so this space stays empty until the real capture exists.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Enter a domain

    Tabitha looks for the sitemap in robots.txt and at the usual addresses, then reads the index files it finds.

  2. Step 2

    Read the tree

    Every segment of the address becomes a node with a count, so you can see at a glance that a shop has 4 000 product pages and 12 category pages.

  3. Step 3

    Pick a branch and filter

    Select a branch, add a pattern or exclude one, and check the last modified date where the sitemap provides it.

  4. Step 4

    Send it onward

    Push the selection into the page extractor as a URL list, or export it as CSV.

When to reach for it

  • Planning a job: how many pages are there and how are they arranged.
  • Content and SEO audits where the address structure is the question.
  • Building a URL list without clicking through pagination.

What it will not do

  • A sitemap says what the site chose to publish. Pages left out of it will not appear.
  • Crawling a site without a sitemap is slower on purpose, because it is more requests.
  • Very large sitemaps are read in parts to keep the browser responsive.