HTML hreflang ➡ XML Sitemap converter

Convert HTML hreflang tags to a valid XML Sitemap.

Follows the Google Guidelines: Tell Google about localized versions of your page.

📘 How to use

🌐 Online version

https://kevduc.github.io/html-xml-hreflang/

🐍 Python script

Run main.py, optionally specifying an input and/or output file, for example:

> python main.py -i test/test-input.html -o test/test-output.xml

Defaults to input.html for the input file and output.xml for the output file if not specified

👇 Example

input.html

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/" />

output.xml

<?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">
  <url>
    <loc>http://en-gb.example.com/page.html</loc>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://en-us.example.com/page.html</loc>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://en.example.com/page.html</loc>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://de.example.com/page.html</loc>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/page.html"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/"/>
  </url>
</urlset>

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