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          <h1 class="t__h1">How to scrape a website using sitemap.xml and Apify SDK</h1>
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            Website with proper sitemap.xml = free jackpot for every web scraper
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      <article dir="ltr"><p class="no-margin"><i>Check out our <a href="https://apify.com/vaclavrut/sitemap-sniffer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sitemap Sniffer</a> – it can discover sitemaps in hidden locations.</i></p><p class="no-margin"></p><p class="no-margin">A website's sitemap contains a list of all of its pages in XML format. We can use it to generate a list of pages to crawl. </p><ol><li>Locate the sitemap, using either the <code>/sitemap.xml</code> path or with the <a href="https://apify.com/vaclavrut/sitemap-sniffer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sitemap Sniffer</a>. </li><li>Identify the URLs for the pages you want to scrape and <a href="https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/scrape-websites-using-the-sitemap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">create a regular expression</a> to capture them.</li><li><a href="https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/scrape-websites-using-the-sitemap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Import</a> the URLs into the Apify SDK's <a href="https://sdk.apify.com/docs/api/request-list#docsNav" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RequestList</a>.</li><li>Use the created RequestList in <a href="https://sdk.apify.com/docs/api/puppeteer-crawler#docsNav" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PuppeteerCrawler</a> and save the results to your dataset.</li></ol><p class="no-margin"><a href="https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/scrape-websites-using-the-sitemap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">See the full tutorial and code examples</a> in our documentation.</p><p class="no-margin"></p></article>
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