Tracking sitemap changes

[tcurdt]

I would love to get notified about changes to a website’s sitemap.xml.

I am aware of the XML node and the example workflow. But what I am struggling with is keeping the state to then diff against.

Any pointers?

[jan]

You could use static data for that. Here an earlier post about that in the forum:

How to pick the latest item (row) added to an airtable table?

Polling is never not the best thing. For Google Sheets, I think it would be possible to build a proper Trigger-Node. For Airtable does it not seem like it though. When I looked I was not able to find anything to do that. So I guess polling it is. If it does not execute to often (like if it would never overlap) and the data is not too large (like you said just an id) it would be possible to use static workflow data. With that, it is possible to save data with the workflow. Does, for example, get…

and here the docs:

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But as documented it is only meant for small amounts of data. So I would advise to only save a hash of the site map and not the full one.

If you really want to save the full one, it is probably best to save the sitemap either as a file on the hard drive with the File-Nodes or in a database like Mongo, Postgres, Redis.