Siteprobe

Siteprobe is a Rust-based CLI tool that fetches all URLs from a given sitemap.xml url, checks their existence, and generates a performance report. It supports various features such as authentication, concurrency control, caching bypass, and more.

Features

• Fetch and parse sitemap.xml to extract URLs, including nested Sitemap Index files recursively.
• Check the existence and response times of each URL.
• Generate a detailed performance CSV report.
• Support for Basic Authentication.
• Adjustable concurrency limits for request handling.
• Configurable request timeout settings.
• Support for configuring rate limits, such as 300 requests per 5-minute interval.
• Redirect handling with security precautions.
• Filtering and reporting slow URLs based on a threshold.
• Custom User-Agent header support.
• Option to append random timestamps to URLs to bypass caching mechanisms.
• Save downloaded documents for further inspection or use as a static site mirror.

Installation

Run without installing

uvx siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml
# or
pipx run siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Install via package manager

# Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
brew install bartTC/siteprobe/siteprobe

# pip / pipx
pip install siteprobe
pipx install siteprobe

# Cargo
cargo install siteprobe

Build from source

Building from source requires Rust 1.86 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/bartTC/siteprobe.git
cd siteprobe
cargo build --release

Usage

siteprobe <sitemap_url> [OPTIONS]

Arguments

• <sitemap_url> - The URL of the sitemap to be fetched and processed.

Options

Usage: siteprobe [OPTIONS] <SITEMAP_URL>

Arguments:
  <SITEMAP_URL>  The URL of the sitemap to be fetched and processed.

Options:
      --basic-auth <BASIC_AUTH>
          Basic authentication credentials in the format `username:password`
  -H, --header <HEADERS>
          Custom header to include in each request (format: 'Name: Value'). Can
          be specified multiple times.
  -c, --concurrency-limit <CONCURRENCY_LIMIT>
          Maximum number of concurrent requests allowed [default: 4]
  -l, --rate-limit <RATE_LIMIT>
          The rate limit for all requests in the format 'requests/time[unit]',
          where unit can be seconds (`s`), minutes (`m`), or hours (`h`). E.g.
          '-l 300/5m' for 300 requests per 5 minutes, or '-l 100/1h' for 100
          requests per hour.
  -o, --output-dir <OUTPUT_DIR>
          Directory where all downloaded documents will be saved
  -a, --append-timestamp
          Append a random timestamp to each URL to bypass caching mechanisms
  -r, --report-path <REPORT_PATH>
          File path for storing the generated `report.csv`
  -j, --report-path-json <REPORT_PATH_JSON>
          File path for storing the generated `report.json`
      --report-path-html <REPORT_PATH_HTML>
          File path for storing the generated `report.html`
  -t, --request-timeout <REQUEST_TIMEOUT>
          Default timeout (in seconds) for each request [default: 10]
      --user-agent <USER_AGENT>
          Custom User-Agent header to be used in requests [default: "Mozilla/5.0
          (compatible; Siteprobe/1.4.0)"]
      --slow-num <SLOW_NUM>
          Limit the number of slow documents displayed in the report. [default:
          100]
  -s, --slow-threshold <SLOW_THRESHOLD>
          Show slow responses. The value is the threshold (in seconds) for
          considering a document as 'slow'. E.g. '-s 3' for 3 seconds or '-s
          0.05' for 50ms.
  -f, --follow-redirects
          Controls automatic redirects. When enabled, the client will follow
          HTTP redirects (up to 10 by default). Note that for security, Basic
          Authentication credentials are intentionally not forwarded during
          redirects to prevent unintended credential exposure.
      --retries <RETRIES>
          Number of retries for failed requests (network errors or 5xx
          responses) [default: 0]
      --json
          Output the JSON report to stdout instead of the normal table output.
          Suppresses all other console output for clean piping.
      --config <CONFIG>
          Path to a TOML config file. Defaults to `.siteprobe.toml` in the
          current directory.
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

EXIT CODES:
0  All URLs returned 2xx (success)
1  One or more URLs returned 4xx/5xx or failed
2  One or more URLs exceeded the slow threshold (--slow-threshold)

Authentication & Custom Headers

Siteprobe supports several ways to authenticate requests:

# Basic Authentication
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml --basic-auth user:password

# Bearer token (via custom header)
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>"

# Send a session cookie
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml -H "Cookie: sessionid=abc123def456"

You can combine multiple -H flags to send several custom headers at once:

siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  -H "Cookie: sessionid=abc123" \
  -H "X-Custom-Header: value"

If both --basic-auth and -H "Authorization: ..." are provided, the -H value takes precedence.

Example Usage

# Fetch and analyze a sitemap with default settings
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml

# Save the report to a specific file
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml --report-path ./results/report.csv --output-dir ./example.com

# Set concurrency limit to 10 and timeout to 5 seconds
siteprobe https://example.com/sitemap.xml --concurrency-limit 10 --request-timeout 5