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benbalter/sitemap-parser

Ruby Gem to parse sitemaps.org compliant sitemaps

Is benbalter/sitemap-parser beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to benbalter/sitemap-parser to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
33
Forks
46
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
5
Dominant language
Ruby
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 3, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
good first issue
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to benbalter/sitemap-parser

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

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  • Passing `headers:` without a User-Agent drops every custom header
    Open
    good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

    benbalter/sitemap-parser#33 ·

  • Dependency Dashboard
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    benbalter/sitemap-parser#32 ·

  • Local sitemap with relative path doesn't work
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
    good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    benbalter/sitemap-parser#14 · 1 comment ·

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