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Python 3 BeautifulSoup to Crawl Website & Generate XML Sitemap & Download it to Local Machine
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here: https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-beautifulsoup-to-crawl-website-generate-xml-sitemap-download-it-to-local-machine/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video we will show you how to
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actually create a XML sitemap inside
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your Python so I have written a Python
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script which will go to a website and
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generate the site map so here you can
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input any website let's suppose I take
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my example
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freetools.com i input this website here
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so it will go to this website and crawl
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it each page and create a XML site map
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so if I just run this Python script
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here so now what happens you can see
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sitemap is created and saved as
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sitemap.xml so you can see that if I
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open this each page has been crawled and
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this XML sitemap you can see has been
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created so each page has been crawled
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and it is present inside this XML
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sitemap so this is a very useful Python
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script guys i have given the script in
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the description of this video so you can
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see
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that this is
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exactly this is actually the website
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here it it has gone to this website and
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has crawled each page and created this
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XML sitemap so for this uh Python script
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we are using a library called as
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beautiful soup so if you go to this uh
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just search for this package which is
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BS4 this is beautiful
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soup just search here beautiful
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soup yeah so this is actually the
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library here it's a web scraping library
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very much helpful
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for Yeah so we are using this one so the
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command is simple simply install this
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and uh
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now I will create this Python script
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step by step so first of all what we
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need to do we need to import the
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necessary packages so import request and
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then we also need to import the
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beautiful soup library from PS4 we need
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to import beautiful soup and then from
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XML dot
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er dot element tree we need to import or
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as ET and then after that we just need
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to use the URL lib library dotparse and
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from this we just need to say URL join
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URL parse
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So we actually imported all the
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necessary packages here you can see now
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what we need to do we need to actually
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uh just call a inside our main
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function like this so here we are
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creating specifying a URL so you can
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provide any URL so I'm just providing
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httpsfreemediatools.com and then we are
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creating a simple custom function create
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sitemap and we are passing this site URL
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as a first argument and the output file
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name which will get created sitemap.xml
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so now we need to define this function
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which is create
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sitemap so which will be responsible for
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creating this sitemap so just define
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this function
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create sitemap so it will be accepting
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the URL and the file name which will be
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sitemap.xml so this is actually a Python
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function and here we
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specify another custom function where we
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need to fetch all the links of this
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website we are providing this URL as an
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argument here so now we need to define
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this function get all
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links so get all links the primary
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objective of this function is to fetch
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or crawl all the pages which are present
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in this website for doing this we are
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using this request module which is a
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built-in module inside Python we have
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this get method we will simply go to the
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URL and then from beautiful
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soup we will initialize this web
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scraping library and pass this response
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which is coming response dot
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content html dot
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parser so this needs to be in single
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quotes HTML dotparsser so what we are
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doing right here inside this function we
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are first of all opening this website we
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are getting the response right here
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after that we are specif uh initializing
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this beautiful SOAP library passing this
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response and the second one is
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HTML.parser so this will now we need to
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extract all the
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links so for this we'll creating a new
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set and we'll be using a simple for
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loop so here we are finding all the
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anchor tags so we are using this find
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all method inside beautiful soup and we
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are searching for this a
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tag
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and after that we are storing it
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inside like
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this href so in this code we are doing
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what we are doing we are simply
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searching for all the links which are
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there inside this website one by one and
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we are storing it inside this link
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variable and then the full URL is will
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be equal to URL
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join we will take the URL and the link
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so this will and then we will simply
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check here if full URL starts
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with so this if the full URL starts with
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HTTP then we need to add this
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link by using full URL and then then we
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just need to return all these
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links that's all so that's all this
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function does it goes to the website
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searches for all the anchor tags one by
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one and then return all the links from
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this that's all so if you need this full
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script guys the link is given in the
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description
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and now after getting all these URLs if
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I print
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this and if I try to run this
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script so now if you see it will return
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all the links which are there inside
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this website so it has crawled the whole
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website using beautiful soup and now we
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just need to create the site
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map for creating the site map it's
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really easy
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we use this ET module it contains
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element URL
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set XML NS is equal to
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HTTP so we just create this XML
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structure inside this URL
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set after doing this now we just need to
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run a simple loop where we add all these
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links one by one
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inside the site map so this
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is this is little bit complicated code
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but just copy it and after that your
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site map will be generated you can see
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that we are adding this URL element to
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the location attribute and location.ext
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is equal to link that's all after that
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now we just need to save this XML file
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for saving it we have this ET
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do url set and tree dot write and here
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we'll write the file name encoding we
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will provide encoding
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is
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UTF8 and the third argument will be XML
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declaration to be true because this is
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XML file then you can simply print that
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uh XML
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sitemap
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generated you can
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check so let me just uh now delete
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this you can do this with any
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website so again if I run the
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script so you will see XML sitemap
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generated and you can see our
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sitemap.xml XML file is generated and
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you can see it has crawled the whole
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website so you can see it's really quick
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it's a really useful script guys because
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uh sitemaps XML sitemaps are necessary
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because if you want to index your
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website in SEO search engine
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optimization then it's really useful you
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can do this really easily using this
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Python script you can take any example
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website and it will scrape all the pages
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and add this to your XML sitemap so
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thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools