A New Catalyst Sitemap Generator --
I've just published a new Catalyst plugin to CPAN and would love to get some feedback on it before I increment the version to the magical 1.0 and declare it production-worthy (sometime next week).
As it stands, there's already an existing sitemap plugin written a few years ago, that works quite well, but I ran into the problem for a client where they have close to 40 million public URLs and want that all represented in a sitemap.
Sitemaps are limited to 50,000 URLs, but through use of a Sitemap Index file, you can include up to 50,000 sitemaps, each with 50,000 URLs.
Rather than just write a one-off script, I decided to write this as a Catalyst plugin and publish to CPAN under the name of Catalyst::Plugin::BigSitemap. It has a public interface that matches the original sitemap plugin (so it can be used as a compete, drop in replacement).
What's supported.
- Configurable sitemap index and sitemap names.
- Writing your sitemap files to an arbitrary directory on the disk
- Overriding the base url (in the even you're starting catalyst from a cron job)
What's not supported:
- Last Modified times in the Sitemap Index file
- Splitting sitemaps up by directories (ie, a sitemap that just covers http://mywebsite.com/books). The sitemaps cover all the URLs that can be resolved and they're all placed in the directory you specify.
I look forward to hearing feedback.
Thanks,
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