News Sitemap Generator
News sitemaps help Google discover fresh articles quickly. Enter your publication name and language, then one article per line with URL, title and publication time, choose the time zone and get a valid news sitemap. The generator checks the language code, repeated URLs, missing times and future dates, warns about articles older than two days and enforces the limit of 1,000 articles per file.
- Runs in your browser
- No sign-up
- Free to use
How to use News Sitemap Generator
- Enter publication name and language.
- List articles as “URL | title | time”.
- Choose the time zone.
- Copy or download news-sitemap.xml.
News Sitemap Generator features
Freshness check
Older than 48 hours flagged.
Time zones
ISO 8601 times.
Language codes
Including zh-cn and zh-tw.
1,000-article limit
Enforced.
Safe XML
Every value is XML-escaped.
Private
Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
When to use News Sitemap Generator
- Small news sites without a plugin.
- Testing a news sitemap format.
- Breaking-news pages.
- Local publishers.
News Sitemap Generator FAQ
Why only the last two days?
Google News sitemaps should list articles published in the last 48 hours; older articles belong in your normal sitemap.
Does this get me into Google News?
No. Inclusion depends on Google’s policies and your content; the sitemap only helps discovery.
How do I submit the sitemap?
Upload the file to your site, add a “Sitemap: https://…” line to robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Keeping a news sitemap fresh
A news sitemap should be updated as you publish, removing articles after two days. Large publishers generate it automatically; this tool is for small sites, tests and one-off use.
The publication name must match the name shown on your articles.
Privacy: everything on this page runs in your browser. What you type or paste is not uploaded, stored or logged, and the result is generated on your device, so you can safely work with unpublished content, client data or drafts.
Tip: the result updates as you type, so you can try variations quickly. Copy the output with one click or download it as a file, and keep a copy of your input if you want to come back later – nothing is saved between visits.
Who it is for: the tool is built for site owners, marketers, writers and developers alike. You do not need to install anything or create an account, it works on phones as well as on desktop computers, and the results are plain text you can paste into any CMS, spreadsheet, code editor or ticket.
Accuracy: the rules used here are documented on the page and follow the published guidelines of the major search engines and web standards. Where a result is an approximation or a rule of thumb rather than an official limit, the page says so, so you can decide how much weight to give it.
Good practice: generated markup and files only help when they match the real page. Publish them together with the visible content they describe, test the page with the official tools from the search engines, and update the markup whenever the page changes.