{
  "id": 15764024,
  "title": "Extract every URL from a sitemap.xml in Python (indexes, .gz, robots.txt) and spot competitors' new pages",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/extract-every-url-from-a-sitemap-xml-in-python-indexes-gz-robots-txt",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T16:21:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/datawrightlabs/extract-every-url-from-a-sitemapxml-in-python-indexes-gz-robotstxt-and-spot-competitors-new-gk4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A site's sitemap is the cheapest full list of its pages you will ever get: the site publishes it for search engines, it usually carries a lastmod date per URL, and reading it takes seconds instead of crawling HTML for hours. That makes it the right starting point for SEO audits, migrations, content inventories, feeding a crawler or RAG pipeline, and keeping an eye on what competitors publish. The…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}