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Laravel Google News (GNews) Sitemap

This package helps you to create a Google News Sitemap. It is useful when you have a blog/news website and you are involved in Google Published Center.

Don't forget to create your Google News Sitemap and submit it in Google Search Console, as a standard sitemap.

Prerequisites

PHP 8.1 or higher
Laravel 10.x or higher

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require the-3labs-team/laravel-googlenews-sitemap

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="googlenews-sitemap-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'path' => 'public/google-news-sitemap.xml',
];

Optionally, you can publish the views using

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-googlenews-sitemap-views"

Usage

You can use the package as follows:

// Init the sitemap
$sitemap = LaravelGooglenewsSitemap::create();

// Add urls
// $articles = App\Models\Article::wherePublished()...
foreach($articles as $article) {
    $sitemap->add(
        url: route('articles.show', $article->slug),
        authorName: $article->authorName,
        title: $article->title,
        lastModificationDate: $article->updated_at,
        language: 'it',
    );
}

// Write sitemap to disk
$sitemap->writeToDisk();