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 Version   v8

 Other versions for crawler [v8](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8)

- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/introduction)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/installation-setup)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/support-us)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/changelog)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/questions-issues)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/about-us)

Creating sitemaps
-----------------

- [ Generating a sitemap ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/generating-a-sitemap)
- [ Manually creating a sitemap ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/manually-creating-a-sitemap)
- [ Creating a sitemap index ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/creating-a-sitemap-index)
- [ Splitting large sitemaps ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/splitting-large-sitemaps)
- [ Adding an XSL stylesheet ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/adding-an-xsl-stylesheet)
- [ Returning a response ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/returning-a-response)
- [ Sorting URLs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/creating-sitemaps/sorting-urls)

Customizing the crawler
-----------------------

- [ Crawl profiles ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/customizing-the-crawler/crawl-profiles)
- [ Filtering URLs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/customizing-the-crawler/filtering-urls)
- [ Configuring the crawler ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/customizing-the-crawler/configuring-the-crawler)

Adding content to URLs
----------------------

- [ Alternates ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/adding-content-to-urls/alternates)
- [ Images ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/adding-content-to-urls/images)
- [ Videos ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/adding-content-to-urls/videos)
- [ News ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/adding-content-to-urls/news)
- [ Sitemapable models ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/adding-content-to-urls/sitemapable-models)

Advanced usage
--------------

- [ Scheduled generation ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/advanced-usage/scheduled-generation)
- [ Writing to disks ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-sitemap/v8/advanced-usage/writing-to-disks)

 Creating a sitemap index
========================

You can create a sitemap index:

```
use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapIndex;

SitemapIndex::create()
    ->add('/pages_sitemap.xml')
    ->add('/posts_sitemap.xml')
    ->writeToFile($sitemapIndexPath);
```

You can pass a `Spatie\Sitemap\Tags\Sitemap` object to manually set the `lastModificationDate` property.

```
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapIndex;
use Spatie\Sitemap\Tags\Sitemap;

SitemapIndex::create()
    ->add('/pages_sitemap.xml')
    ->add(Sitemap::create('/posts_sitemap.xml')
        ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::yesterday()))
    ->writeToFile($sitemapIndexPath);
```

You can check if the index contains a specific sitemap and retrieve it:

```
$sitemapIndex->hasSitemap('/pages_sitemap.xml'); // returns true or false
$sitemapIndex->getSitemap('/pages_sitemap.xml'); // returns a Sitemap tag object or null
```

The generated sitemap index will look similar to this:

```

        http://www.example.com/pages_sitemap.xml
        2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

        http://www.example.com/posts_sitemap.xml
        2015-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

```