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Sitemap

This recipe walks you through creating a product sitemap feed using Laravel Feeds. You will:

  • Generate the necessary classes.
  • Implement the feed logic.
  • Expose the files via the file system.
  • Optionally reference the generated sitemap from a root sitemap.xml file.

Create the files​

Generate the feed and its item class using the following console command:

php artisan make:feed Sitemaps/Product

Populate the feed​

Replace extends Feed with extends SitemapFeedPreset in the generated class:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Feeds\Sitemaps;

use App\Models\Product;
use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Feeds\Items\FeedItem;
use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Presets\SitemapFeedPreset;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class ProductFeed extends SitemapFeedPreset
{
    public function builder(): Builder
    {
        return Product::query();
    }

    public function item(Model $model): FeedItem
    {
        return parent::item($model)
            ->url($model->url)
            ->modifiedAt($model->updated_at) // By default, $model->updated_at
            ->priority(0.9); // By default, 0.9
    }

    public function filename(): string
    {
        return 'sitemaps/' . parent::filename();
    }
}

Available methods of the FeedItem class:

  • url - It is required to indicate
  • modifiedAt - by default, $model->updated_at
  • priority - by default, 0.9

Activate​

Review the generated operation or migration file, then run the appropriate console command:

# For Laravel Deploy Operations
php artisan operations

# For Laravel Migrations
php artisan migrate

Add a file system disk that points to the directory containing your sitemaps in the config/filesystems.php configuration file:

return [
    'links' => [
        public_path('storage')  => storage_path('app/public'),
        public_path('sitemaps') => storage_path('app/public/sitemaps'),
    ],
];

Then create the public symlink so the files are accessible in a browser:

php artisan storage:link

Generate feed​

Generate the feed by running the following console command:

php artisan feed:generate

If you maintain a root sitemap.xml file that references other sitemaps, add an entry like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
        <loc>https://example.com/sitemaps/products.xml</loc>
    </sitemap>
    <sitemap>
        <loc>https://example.com/sitemaps/other-sitemaps.xml</loc>
    </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Result​

The generated sitemap.xml for your products will look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">

<url>
  <loc>https://example.com/products/ea-voluptatum-fuga-odio-expedita</loc>
  <lastmod>2025-08-31T20:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
  <priority>0.9</priority>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>https://example.com/products/dolores-rerum-ut-consequatur-in</loc>
  <lastmod>2025-08-30T19:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
  <priority>0.9</priority>
</url>

</urlset>

See Also​