In this short snippet, you will learn how to easily generate a sitemap using a package called Laravel Sitemap by Spatie. The steps are very simple so let's get started.
Firstly do Install the package using Composer package manager to your Laravel project.
Step 1: Install Laravel Sitemap by Spatie
Firstly do Install the package using Composer package manager to your Laravel project.
composer require spatie/laravel-sitemap
Step 2: Generate Sitemap
The next step is to call the SitemapGenerator class to generate the sitemap. This class has a static method called "create" which accepts the URL to crawl. To save the sitemap you can chain the method with "writeToFile" and pass in the path.
<?php
Route::get('generate-sitemap', function () {
SitemapGenerator::create('https://app.test')
->writeToFile($path);
});The path can be the public storage so it's accessible right aways from the browser.
<?php
Route::get('generate-sitemap', function () {
SitemapGenerator::create('https://app.test')
->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));
});Now you can access the "sitemap.xml" from your code editor or from the browser directly to see the generated sitemap.
https://app.test/sitemap.xml
Step 3: Update robots.txt
Before pushing your code to production do make sure to update the "robots.txt" to specify the location of the sitemap.
User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: https://app.test/sitemap.xml
By doing that you will let search engines crawler locate the location of the sitemap and enable it to crawl your site links.
Optional: Sitemap Configuration File
You may publish the sitemap configuration file and from the config, you can specify how long the timeout of the crawler request and etc.
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider" --tag=config
The location of the configuration will be inside the config directory.
config/sitemap.php
