Node.js sitemap.xml link checker

index.js

const axios = require('axios');
const xml2js = require('xml2js');
const { promisify } = require('util');

const parseXml = promisify(xml2js.parseString);

async function checkUrl(url) {
  try {
    const response = await axios.head(url, { timeout: 5000 });
    return { url, status: response.status };
  } catch (error) {
    return { url, status: error.response ? error.response.status : 'Error' };
  }
}

function delay(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

async function validateSitemap(sitemapUrl) {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get(sitemapUrl);
    const result = await parseXml(response.data);

    const urls = result.urlset.url.map(item => item.loc[0]);

    for (const url of urls) {
      const { status } = await checkUrl(url);
      if (status !== 200) {
        console.log(`Broken link: ${url} (Status: ${status})`);
      } else {
        console.log(`Working link: ${url}`);
      }
      await delay(500); // 500ms delay between requests
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error validating sitemap:', error.message);
  }
}

// Usage
const sitemapUrl = 'https://azdanov.dev/sitemap.xml';
validateSitemap(sitemapUrl);

Usage:

# To initialize a project
npm init -y

# Inside project dir to install dependencies
npm install axios xml2js

# Run script
node script.js