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dionisiy13/google-news-sitemap
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Easy way to do sitemap for google news

v1.0.2(3y ago)1230.7k↓21.6%2MITPHPPHP >=7.0.0

Since Jan 29Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Google News Sitemap
===================

[](#google-news-sitemap)

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Class for generating the sitemap for google news. More about google news sitemap [here](https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=uk)

Example of the sitemap from google

```

   http://www.example.org/business/article55.html

       The Example Times
       en

     PressRelease, Blog
     2008-12-23
     Companies A, B in Merger Talks
     business, merger, acquisition, A, B
     NASDAQ:A, NASDAQ:B

      https://example.com/image.jpg

      https://example.com/photo.jpg

```

Install
-------

[](#install)

Via Composer

```
$ composer require dionisiy13/google-news-sitemap
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$sitemap = new \Dionisiy\SitemapGoogle\Sitemap($pathToFile);
$siteName = "example.com";
foreach ($posts as $item) {
    $sitemap->setGenres("Blog");
    $sitemap->setKeywords($item['tags']);
    $sitemap->setLanguage("en");
    $sitemap->setLoc($item['url']);
    $sitemap->setName($siteName);
    $sitemap->setPublicationDate($item['publishAt']->getTimestamp());
    $sitemap->setTitle($item['title']);
    $sitemap->setImages($item['images']);
    $sitemap->addItem();
}
$sitemap->write();
```

`$posts` - list of news

`$pathToFile` - where the file should apear. For example `getcwd() . '/public' . '/sitemap_google_news.xml'`

`$item['date']` - should be DateTime

Tags and genres could be empty.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Dan Kurasov](https://github.com/dionisiy13)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 80% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1864 days

Total

2

Last Release

1168d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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