What is included in the CSV export?

The CSV export includes URL, detected type, and source position/order. Type detection is simple and may label common image or video file extensions, with other URLs treated as pages or unknown.

Is my sitemap XML uploaded to a server?

No. Extraction runs locally in your browser. The tool does not need an API call or server upload to parse the pasted XML or selected file.

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Sitemap URL Extractor

Extract clean URLs from pasted sitemap XML or uploaded XML files. Deduplicate, filter, copy, and export sitemap URLs locally in your browser.

About Sitemap URL Extractor

Extract, clean, filter, deduplicate, copy, and export URLs from pasted sitemap XML or uploaded XML files.

A Sitemap URL Extractor is a browser-based SEO utility that reads sitemap XML and pulls out the URLs inside loc tags. It is useful when you need a clean list of URLs for technical SEO audits, indexing reviews, content inventories, migrations, redirect mapping, crawl comparisons, and QA checks. Instead of asking the tool to fetch a live sitemap URL, the primary workflow is to paste sitemap XML or upload an XML file. This keeps the process client-side and avoids common CORS issues that happen when browsers try to request sitemap files from other domains. The extractor supports standard sitemap files, sitemap index files, formatted XML, compact XML, mixed whitespace, duplicate URLs, and malformed input where loc tags can still be recovered.

How to use Sitemap URL Extractor

Copy the XML from a sitemap file or export/download the sitemap XML from your CMS, SEO crawler, or website platform. Paste it into the input area, or upload an XML file using the file drop area. The tool extracts values from loc tags, validates whether they are normal http or https URLs, counts total URLs, unique URLs, duplicates, and invalid entries, then displays a clean output list. Use the deduplicate option when you only want one copy of each URL. Turn on sorting when you want an alphabetical list. Use the filter field to isolate specific sections such as /blog/, /products/, /category/, .pdf, or another path pattern. When the list looks right, copy it, download a TXT file, or export CSV with URL, detected type, and source order columns.

Sitemap URL Extractor example

Imagine an agency preparing a website migration. The team receives a sitemap index and several sitemap files from the current site. They paste each sitemap XML into the extractor, filter by /blog/ to isolate editorial URLs, deduplicate repeated URLs, and export a CSV. The CSV can then be compared against crawl data, analytics exports, redirect plans, and new-site URL structures. If some loc values are invalid or not normal web URLs, the invalid count makes those entries easier to review before the migration checklist is finalized.

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Helpful questions

Can this tool fetch a sitemap URL from another website?

No. The tool is designed for client-side extraction from pasted XML or uploaded XML files. This avoids CORS issues and keeps the workflow local in the browser.

Does it work with sitemap index files?

Yes. Sitemap index files also use loc tags, so the extractor can pull sitemap URLs from a sitemap index as well as page URLs from a normal urlset sitemap.

What counts as an invalid URL?

The tool marks entries as invalid when a loc value is not a valid http or https URL. This helps catch broken exports, relative paths, copied comments, or malformed values.

Can I remove duplicate sitemap URLs?

Yes. Keep the deduplicate option enabled to show one copy of each URL in the output. The duplicate count still shows how many repeated loc values were found.