It would be nice to have access to params in sitemap.ts files

[JamesSingleton]

Goals

1. Be able to get params inside sitemap file similar to page file
2. This would allow for a better way to dynamically build sitemap files

Non-Goals

Background

I have a college sports news website that we are expanding from covering a single sport to multiple sports. For example, I have /college/[sport]/news/page.tsx and would like to add /college/[sport]/news/sitemap.ts. However, right now you do not have access to that [sport] in order to dynamically fetch the correct articles for the particular sport. So if the route is /college/football/news/sitemap/0.xml, I would like to then fetch articles related to college football.

Proposal

Allow access to params in the sitemap file just like you do page files. This should also apply to the generateSitemaps function so that you could fetch the total number of articles and calculate the number of sitemaps.

[icyJoseph]

You can also just use a route.ts handler file, like, /college/[sport]/news/sitemap.xml/route.ts, and that'll have access to what you need, and then you just need to build the xml file yourself... which probably the let down here.

Good to know: sitemap.js is a special Route Handler

• Access param in sitemap #68171 (reply in thread)

Idk why the sitemap doesn't get those parameters though, but the idea with generateSitemaps, is to upfront generate all of the possible sitemap files you'd need.

[JamesSingleton]

That is true you could, but that would give you /college/football/news/sitemap.xml instead of something like /college/football/news/sitemap/0.xml like it gives you out of the box if you do generateSitemaps() like they show in their example. I mean I could probably do without having access to the params in the generateSitemaps() and just have access to it in export default async function sitemap(). Yea I would lose the generating of the sitemaps upfront but 🤷🏼‍♂️

My main question going the /college/football/news/sitemap.xml/route.ts way is lets say I hit over 50,000 URLs in that sitemap, how do you expand to sitemap-1.xml, etc etc.

[icyJoseph]

Aha, then you'd need, /college/[sport]/news/sitemap/[item]/route.ts or something like that... and the item would have to be something like articleId + .xml --- and that's suddenly not looking so pretty, you'd have to split on .xml and yada yada...

[JamesSingleton]

Yea, I was thinking of the ways to do it and they all seemed messy. I am wondering if it would just be better to create a huge sitemap file for everything at this rate.