apesmit-python2 0.1

simple Python module to create XML sitemaps

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THIS IS A FORK....

Notes:
# Apesmit was originally written by Florian Diesch at https://www.florian-diesch.de/software/apesmit/
# It was then forked to remove the Python3-only flag since it works with Python 2, ie https://pypi.org/project/apesmit-py2/
# I then had to fork to change the PyPi link to https, due to https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-October/031714.html

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.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

What is ApeSmit?
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ApeSmit is a very simple Python module to create XML sitemaps
as defined at http://www.sitemaps.org. ApeSmit doesn't contain any web
spider or something like that, it just writes the data you provide to
a file using the proper syntax.


Usage
=====

First we create an instance of `SiteMap`:

>>> sm=Sitemap(changefreq='weekly')

The ``changefreq`` keyword sets a default value for that parameter.

Now we add some URL's to our sitemap:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.com/')

We may use some parameters:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.com/news/', changefreq='daily',
... priority=1.0,
... lastmod='1891-1-1')

There's a shortcut for URL's that changed today:

>>> sm.add('http://www.example.org/about.html', lastmod='today')

That's all for now. Next we need a file to write the sitemap in:

>>> out=open('sitemap.xml', 'w')

Now we write our sitemap and then close the file:

>>> sm.write(out)
>>> out.close()

And that's the content of our shiny new sitemap::

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/news/</loc>
<lastmod>1891-1-1</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.org/about.html</loc>
<lastmod>2008-04-03</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>