Automatically Read Sitemap and Submit to Baidu Webmaster with PHP

Some websites automatically generate a sitemap.xml file, so we don’t need to manually update the URLs. We just need a function to read the sitemap.xml file and then submit it to Baidu Webmaster with one click.

Code

We use PHP’s built-in simplexml_load_file function to read the sitemap.xml file and use curl to submit these links to Baidu Webmaster.

$site = "Website Address";
$token = "Baidu Webmaster Token";
$xml = simplexml_load_file('sitemap.xml');
$urls = array();
foreach ($xml->url as $url) {
    $urls[] = $url->loc;
}
if(count($urls) > 0){
    $api = "http://data.zz.baidu.com/urls?site=$site&token=$token";
    $ch = curl_init();
    $options =  array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $api,
        CURLOPT_POST => true,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => implode("\n", $urls),
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-Type: text/plain'),
    );
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $success = json_decode($result)->success;
    if($success){
        echo "Push Successful";
    }
    else{
        echo "Push Failed";
    }
}

The overall implementation is relatively simple. After reading, it automatically generates an array, which can be directly used in the curl submission.