Sitemap MCP Server

Discover website architecture and analyze site structure by fetching, parsing, and visualizing sitemaps from any URL. Uncover hidden pages and extract organized hierarchies without manual exploration.

Includes ready-to-use prompt templates for Claude Desktop that let you analyze websites, check sitemap health, extract URLs, find missing content, and create visualizations with just a URL input.

Demo

Get answers to questions about any website leveraging the power of sitemaps.

Cursor: how many pages does a modelcontextprotocol.io have?

Claude + prompt: visualize the sitemap in a diagram of windsurf.com

Click on the "attach" button next to the tools button:

Then select visualize_sitemap:

Now we enter windsurf.com:

And we get a visualization of teh sitemap:

Installation

Make sure uv is installed.

Installing in Claude Desktop, Cursor or Windsurf

Add this entry to your claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor settings, etc.:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sitemap": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["sitemap-mcp-server"],
      "env": { "TRANSPORT": "stdio" }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude if it's running. For Cursor simply press refresh and/or enable the MCP Server in the settings.

Installing via Smithery

To install sitemap for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @mugoosse/sitemap --client claude

MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector env TRANSPORT=stdio uvx sitemap-mcp-server

# Start the server
uvx sitemap-mcp-server

# Start the MCP Inspector in a separate terminal
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector connect http://127.0.0.1:8050

SSE Transport

If you want to use the SSE transport, follow these steps:

1. Start the server:

uvx sitemap-mcp-server

2. Configure your MCP Client, e.g. Cursor:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sitemap": {
      "transport": "sse",
      "url": "http://localhost:8050/sse"
    }
  }
}

Local Development

For instructions on building and running the project from source, please refer to the DEVELOPERS.md guide.

Usage

Tools

The following tools are available via the MCP server:

• get_sitemap_tree - Fetch and parse th

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