This Node.js script is used to fetch URLs from a sitemap, process and submit them to the Google Search Console's Indexing API. The script will process the first 200 URLs that have not been previously processed and log the processed URLs to a text file.
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
- Node.js is installed on your system.
- You have a
service_account.jsonfile that contains the service account credentials. Please follow Google's documentation to create a service account and generate this file. - You have a Google Search Console property verified.
To install the necessary dependencies, use the following command:
npm install xml2js request request-promise googleapis
Replace 'https://example.com/sitemap.xml' in the script with your actual sitemap URL.
Run the script using the following command:
node index.js
Optionally, you can pass the --delete argument if you wish to notify Google that the URLs have been deleted:
node index.js --delete
After the script runs, you can check the log.txt file to see which URLs have been processed.
If you want to fully automate this process then simply create a cronjob/scheduled task to run the script every 24 hours.
By default the script only processes 200 URLs at a time to respect Google's 200 per day publishing quota. If you have a higher quota, you can adjust the batch = batch.slice(0, 200); accordingly.