sitemap generation

[billryan]

Sitemap.xml is an optimization for search engine. Gitbook does not provide sitemap support now. I have little knowledge about Javascript, so I wrote a sitemap generation helper with Python.

Implementation details

1. git ls-tree and git log, we can get the files in git repo and its latest modified time.
2. filter .md source files and exclude/replace some special markdown files.
3. replace .md with .html.
4. generate sitemap.xml with Jinja2 template

algorithm-exercise/sitemap_gen.py

[billryan]

A better implementation fixed in GitbookIO/plugin-sitemap#3