Convert CSV to XML Sitemap
How to convert data from a CSV to XML?
- Prepare your CSV file:
Create a CSV spreadsheet, following the proposed сolumn mapping. - Enable the “Import from a CSV” option on the Data Source settings tab:
Once you enable this option you can specify the file URL or upload it from your device (direct upload only applies to Public Free and Static Pro plans). - Setup other necessary and/or related file generation settings and defaults (optional).
- Start your service.
Column Mapping of CSV File for XML Sitemap Generator
Required fields & explanations of spreadsheet columns:
| Element name | Description | Is this required |
| URL | Valid column names: url Recommended content type: String Description: page URL | Required It is allowed to use a URI relative to the website domain |
| Lastmod | Valid column names: lastmod Recommended content type: Datetime Description: Date of page modified | Not required Used when enabling the corresponding option in the settings and selecting the value of "server response" |
| Priority | Valid column names: priority Recommended content type: Float Description: Priority of the page from 0.1 to 1.0 | Not required Used when enabling the corresponding option in the settings |
| Changefreq | Valid column names: changefreq Recommended content type: String Description: Page changefreq mode – always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never | Not required |
