IndexNow Sitemap Cron

A lightweight Node.js module that periodically sends URLs from your sitemap to the IndexNow API.

Perfect for SEO automation on frequently updated websites.

📦 Installation

npm i indexnow-sitemap-cron

🚀 Usage

const indexnowCron = require('indexnow-sitemap-cron');

indexnowCron({
  sitemapUrl: 'https://example.com/sitemap.xml',
  host: 'example.com',
  key: 'YOUR_INDEXNOW_KEY',
  keyLocation: 'https://example.com/YOUR_INDEXNOW_KEY.txt',
  cronTime: '0 5 * * *', // Optional, defaults to daily at 5:00 AM
});

⚙️ Options

| Option | Type | Required | Description | |---------------|----------|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | sitemapUrl | string | ✅ | Full URL to your sitemap.xml | | host | string | ✅ | Your domain (e.g. example.com) | | key | string | ✅ | IndexNow key | | keyLocation | string | ✅ | Public key location (URL to your .txt verification key)| | cronTime | string | ❌ | Cron syntax (e.g. 0 */6 * * * to run every 6 hours) | | logger | object | ❌ | Optional logger, defaults to console |

🧪 Test Run

To trigger the cron and run immediately:

node yourApp.js

📄 License

MIT