Sitemap to Excel: Mixing this result with another sitemap tool
Looking for a second sheet of images or videos. Image URLs are a column on the URL sheet. Video fields are not separate columns. (Sitemap to Excel, mistake 1.)
Download a real Excel file of sitemap URLs, with columns for loc, lastmod, changefreq, priority, and any image URLs found in the file.
From the form
Sitemap to Excel produces an .xlsx workbook with one sheet. The workbook is a real Office Open XML file, not a renamed CSV. One sheet named URLs has the columns loc, lastmod, changefreq, priority, and image urls. You can paste XML into the box, or you can enter a public sitemap URL and let the server fetch it. A pasted urlset is parsed on the server without a second copy of the parser in the browser. The form stays near the top of the page, under the single title. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 1.)
Sitemap to Excel shares one fetcher with the other sitemap tools. The fetcher allows http and https only. It rejects file, gopher, and data URLs, then blocks localhost, loopback, link-local, private ranges, CGNAT space, and the cloud metadata address before it opens a socket. DNS answers are checked before the connection, and a redirect is checked again. A redirect loop is reported instead of being followed forever. Three hops is the maximum. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 3.)
When a URL must be fetched, the page sends the job to the server and shows a short progress line while it polls. Small pastes return immediately with the same result shape: source URL, index or urlset, child sitemaps, page rows, errors, duplicates, redirect hops, status, truncated flag, and counts. Repeat fetches of the same normalized URL can reuse a finished parse for 10 minutes. Jobs sit in a file folder so more than one server process can see them, and they expire after 30 minutes. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 5.)
A concrete pass through Sitemap to Excel starts with https://example.com/sitemap.xml. If that address is an index whose first child is https://example.com/sitemaps/images.xml, the file list and the page list answer different questions. The page address https://example.com/guides/titles belongs in the page list only when a urlset contains it. Keep the two lists apart when you copy them into a spreadsheet or a ticket. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 7.)
Take Sitemap to Excel as one step. The next page in this set is Sitemap to CSV, which answers a different question about the same sitemap. Image Sitemap Generator is the other close check. Finish the reading on this page before you switch, so you do not mix an .xlsx workbook with one sheet with a different report. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 9.)
Use https://example.com/sitemap.xml as the file you are checking and https://example.com/guides/titles as a page address you expect to see or not see, depending on the job. Download sitemap-urls.xlsx and open it in Excel, LibreOffice, or Google Sheets. The first row is the header. Each following row is one stored page URL. If the file is a sitemap index, child documents such as https://example.com/sitemaps/images.xml are fetched only when you supplied the index URL, only while the depth is within 2, and only until 20 child sitemap requests have been made. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 2.)
Large files are cut at 5 MB, and the stored page list stops at 5,000 URLs. Gzip responses and addresses that end in .gz are decompressed before parsing. A DOCTYPE or an entity declaration is rejected so the parser cannot expand an external entity. An HTML document or a Cloudflare challenge body is reported as not a sitemap. The raw response body is not written to the log. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 4.)
Looking for a second sheet of images or videos. Image URLs are a column on the URL sheet. Video fields are not separate columns. After you read that distinction, look at the severity of any finding. An error means the document or the fetch failed the check this page is responsible for. A warning, such as a duplicate loc or a truncated file, means the rest of the result is still usable. A note explains a cap, a paste that did not download child files, or a sample crawl. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 6.)
The result panel uses the same dark block as the other tools on this site. Copy is there when a text result is useful. A download button appears only for a file this page actually builds, such as CSV, XLSX, XML, or llms.txt. Sitemap to Excel does not add a second title to the page, and it does not restyle the tools around it. (Sitemap to Excel, guide 8.)
Sitemap to Excel is the iSkills page for an .xlsx workbook with one sheet. The workbook is a real Office Open XML file, not a renamed CSV. One sheet named URLs has the columns loc, lastmod, changefreq, priority, and image urls. Paste XML when you already have the file, or enter a public http or https sitemap URL when you want the server to fetch it within the published caps.
The caps are part of the result, not a hidden failure. Sitemap to Excel stores at most 5,000 page URLs, fetches at most 20 child sitemaps, and stops nested indexes at depth 2. A truncated flag and a note tell you when the list is incomplete.
Paste sitemap XML or enter the sitemap URL. For Sitemap to Excel, the address to try first is https://example.com/sitemap.xml. (Sitemap to Excel, step 1.)
Run the check. A short progress line stays on screen while a fetch is in a server job. (Sitemap to Excel, step 2.)
Read an .xlsx workbook with one sheet. Confirm whether the result says the list was truncated. (Sitemap to Excel, step 3.)
Copy the text you need, or download the file when this page offers one. Publish any generated XML yourself. (Sitemap to Excel, step 4.)
On this tool
Input
Paste a urlset that contains https://example.com/guides/titles once and the same address a second time. Sitemap to Excel keeps one stored page and records the duplicate. Fetching https://example.com/sitemap.xml instead of pasting uses the same parser after the download. (Sitemap to Excel, example 1.)
What you should see
If https://example.com/sitemap.xml is a sitemap index and https://example.com/sitemaps/images.xml is the first child, a URL fetch can read that child until the depth and child caps. A paste of the index lists https://example.com/sitemaps/images.xml and does not download it until you fetch the index URL. (Sitemap to Excel, example 2.)
On this tool
Looking for a second sheet of images or videos. Image URLs are a column on the URL sheet. Video fields are not separate columns. (Sitemap to Excel, mistake 1.)
Sitemap to Excel stops at the published caps. A truncated note means you do not have the full file. (Sitemap to Excel, mistake 2.)
Localhost, link-local, private ranges, and the metadata address are blocked before a socket is opened. (Sitemap to Excel, mistake 3.)
An HTML page or a challenge interstitial is reported as not a sitemap. Fix the URL or the firewall rule, then run the check again. (Sitemap to Excel, mistake 4.)
In practice
Sitemap to Excel returns an .xlsx workbook with one sheet. Download sitemap-urls.xlsx and open it in Excel, LibreOffice, or Google Sheets. The first row is the header. Each following row is one stored page URL. (Sitemap to Excel, What does Sitemap to Excel return?.)
A paste is parsed without a download. A sitemap URL is fetched on the server. Child files inside a pasted index are listed and are not downloaded until you fetch the index URL. (Sitemap to Excel, Does Sitemap to Excel fetch a pasted file?.)
It refuses non-http schemes, private and metadata addresses, DOCTYPE and entity declarations, responses over 5 MB, and HTML that is not a sitemap. (Sitemap to Excel, What will Sitemap to Excel refuse?.)
The stored page list stops at 5,000 URLs. Child sitemap fetches stop at 20, nested indexes stop at depth 2, and redirects stop at 3. The screen says when the result is truncated. (Sitemap to Excel, How large a file can Sitemap to Excel store?.)