![]() You’re going to need to use Google Chrome to do this as you’ll need to install a Chrome extension. ![]() The process is very simple - we’re going to use the “site:” search operator to produce a list of URLs indexed within your domain and use a JavaScript based tool to extract the URL data from the source code. Plus if Google were to just provide this data we wouldn’t have to resort to these techniques! SERP Link Extraction What we’re going to do is not intended for malicious purposes, in fact it’s quite the opposite as it’ll help you, the webmaster, to understand which pages are indexed by Google and act accordingly. I’m going to show you how you can extract a list of all URLs available from Google in 6 easy steps without scraping Google SERPs with automated tools or having the mundane task of manually copying and pasting each URL from a ‘site:’ search.ĭisclaimer:Some may argue that this tutorial itself is a method of scraping Google search results, which I guess it kind of is but in my mind methods of scraping often lean towards automated tools with malicious intent. Hopefully one day they’ll add this feature, but in the meantime you’ll have to resort to other methods. Google Webmaster Tools (and Bing Webmaster Tools for that matter!) contains a feature which allows the webmaster to see the number of pages indexed but does not provide an option to export the list. You would have thought Google could just provide the list but for whatever reason they do not currently share this information. You may think that crawling the website with spider software such Xenu or Screaming Frog will give you a list of all available URLs but this only provides a list of all links accessible from within the website itself not a list of all pages indexed by Google. Or perhaps there’s another reason or you’re just curious! Whatever the reason this seemingly simple task of obtaining a list of URLs indexed by Google is challenging. ![]() Perhaps you need the data as a crucial part of a technical website audit to check for signs of duplication or repetition. Perhaps you need this information for a site migration to ensure all those important redirects are handled correctly. Sometimes you just want to know which pages of your website Google have within their huge index of URLs. ![]()
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