Index Now

A simple Bash script to automatically submit URLs to search engines like Microsoft Bing, Naver, Yandex, Yahoo, and Seznam using IndexNow API.

✨ Features

✔️ Single URL Submission
✔️ Bulk URL Submission from a File
✔️ Fetching & Submitting URLs from Sitemaps
✔️ Fetching & Submitting URLs from Web Pages
✔️ Multiple Search Engine Support

📥 Installation

🔧 Prerequisites

1. A valid IndexNow API Key
   • Generate here: IndexNow Key
2. API Key Verification File
   • Create a text file: your-api-key.txt (replace with your actual key).
   • Upload it to your website’s root directory:

     https://www.yourdomain.com/your-api-key.txt
     

   • The file must contain the exact API key.
3. Required Tools
   • cURL (Check installation: curl --version)
   • Install it if missing:

     sudo apt install curl  # Ubuntu/Debian
     brew install curl      # macOS (Homebrew)
     

⚡ Installation Steps

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone https://github.com/nexoscreation/IndexNow.git
   cd IndexNow
   

2. Set Up Configuration
   Edit config/settings.env and update the following:

   HOST="https://www.yourdomain.com"
   API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
   KEY_LOCATION="https://www.yourdomain.com/your-api-key.txt"
   

🎯 Usage

✅ Submit a Single URL

bash scripts/indexnow.sh -u "https://www.yourdomain.com/sample-page"

✅ Submit Bulk URLs from a File

bash scripts/indexnow.sh -f urls.txt

📌 Ensure urls.txt contains one URL per line.

✅ Submit URLs from a Sitemap

bash scripts/indexnow.sh -s "https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml"

✅ Submit URLs Found on a Web Page

bash scripts/indexnow.sh -p "https://www.yourdomain.com"

🤝 Contributing

We ❤️ contributions! Follow these steps to contribute:

1. 🍴 Fork the repository
2. 🌿 Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. 💾 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. 🚀 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. 🔃 Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.

Made with ❤️ by @nexoscreation