📊 Submit new sitemap URLs to IndexNow with Telegram alerts
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Description
Quick overview
This workflow runs daily to fetch an XML sitemap, detect newly added URLs, submit them to the IndexNow API for faster indexing, and send a Telegram message listing the new pages.
How it works
- Runs every morning on a cron schedule.
- Loads your configuration values (sitemap URL, optional URL filter, site host, IndexNow key details, and Telegram chat ID).
- Downloads the XML sitemap via HTTP and extracts all URLs, optionally filtering them by a path substring (for example, “/blog”).
- Compares the extracted URLs with previously seen URLs stored in workflow static data and keeps only URLs that are new since the last active run.
- Submits the new URL list to the IndexNow API and then sends a Telegram message with the detected URLs (or, on the first run, sends a baseline confirmation message without submitting anything).
Setup
- Generate an IndexNow key, host the key file at the root of your site, and set the correct site host, key, and key file URL in the workflow configuration.
- Update the sitemap URL (and optionally the URL filter) in the configuration so the workflow reads the correct sitemap.
- Add Telegram bot credentials, then set your target Telegram chat ID in the configuration so the workflow can send messages.
Requirements
- A website with an XML sitemap
- An IndexNow key hosted at the root of your site
- A Telegram bot and chat ID
Customization
- Set urlFilter to “/blog” to watch only blog posts, or leave it empty to watch every page
- Replace Telegram with Slack, Discord or email
- Change the schedule to run hourly on high-volume sites
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Telegram, Schedule Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File