- jekyll-sitemap: adding url that are not in the project

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I am trying to add some external URLs (the URLs that are under my username.github.io domain but not in the project by themself because of how GitHub handle the project-based webpages) to my sitemap.xml that has been generated by - jekyll-sitemap plugin and I couldn’t find the correct way to do it.
Is that any working solution to realize that?
Thank you.

2

The simplest way to handle this might be to create a blank page that redirects the user to the “external” content using the html http-equiv meta tag.

3

Redirects will be okay provided you do not cross domains. i.e. username.github.io/abc to http://username.github.io/xyz is fine.

I have a hack in my Jekyll site to build a sitemap that contains the homepages of almost all my GH Pages sites.

How it works

The site itself is just a one-page site.

So line 8 handles that and gives this result:

<url>
<loc>https://michaelcurrin.github.io</loc>
<lastmod>2021-12-20T12:07:43+00:00</lastmod>
</url>

Other sites are rendered like this:

<url>
<loc>https://michaelcurrin.github.io/auto-tag/</loc>
<lastmod>2021-12-20T12:07:43+00:00</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://michaelcurrin.github.io/badge-generator/</loc>
<lastmod>2021-12-20T12:07:43+00:00</lastmod>
</url>

Based on a manually-maintained data file of all my sites.

There is some duplication in here of course - one just needs the name field and the url from the config to infer the full URL, but anywhere it works.

I think I got the data from a GH API GraphQL query to look up all my sites and their URL. Let me know if you want that query.