List, retrieve metadata for, and delete sitemaps from a Search Console property via the Sitemaps API
domain: developers.google.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Authenticate with an OAuth2 token that includes the 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters' scope (read-write)
Call GET 'webmasters/v3/sites/{siteUrl}/sitemaps' to retrieve all submitted sitemaps and their metadata including 'lastSubmitted', 'isPending', and 'errors'
Use GET 'webmasters/v3/sites/{siteUrl}/sitemaps/{feedpath}' to retrieve per-sitemap details including discovered URL counts and warnings
Submit a new sitemap with PUT 'webmasters/v3/sites/{siteUrl}/sitemaps/{feedpath}' — the feedpath must be URL-encoded
Delete stale or invalid sitemaps with DELETE 'webmasters/v3/sites/{siteUrl}/sitemaps/{feedpath}' to keep the index clean
Automate a weekly GET-and-audit script to detect sitemaps whose 'errors' count has increased or whose 'lastDownloaded' field is stale
Known gotchas
A 200 response from the PUT (submit) endpoint only confirms receipt — it does not mean Google has successfully parsed the sitemap; check 'isPending' and 'errors' in a follow-up GET
The feedpath in the URL must be percent-encoded; submitting a raw URL with query parameters will result in a 400 error
Deleting a sitemap from Search Console does not cause Google to deindex the URLs it listed — it only removes the submission record
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