Indexation via API of urls in bulk using existing Sitemap:

The Indexing API empowers site owners to promptly inform Google about page additions or removals, facilitating timely crawls for enhanced user traffic quality. Staying ahead of competitors is crucial, ensuring your site is crawled and ranked promptly, especially for time-sensitive, competitive content.

While Google initially suggests the Indexing API solely for JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in VideoObject websites, our tests revealed its effectiveness across various website types.

Below are the steps to submit URLs from sitemaps for indexing.

1. Set up Google API credentials:

Go to the Google Cloud Console. https://console.cloud.google.com/welcome

Create a new project or select an existing one.

Enable the "Search Console API" for your project. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/google/searchconsole.googleapis.com

Click on Manage Api

Create Service Account for your site, from manage service account tab

Make it as owner in role

Go to detail, copy email address

Make this email id as onwer in your site GSC account.

Go to Key tab

Add key > Create New Key > Json

Create credentials for a service account and download the JSON file containing the key and save it in desktop.

2. Install Python latest version

Open command prompt

Type cd desktop enter

3. Install the Google API Python client library using the following command:

pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

4. Execution of code:
Copy below code in notepad. Replace 'path/to/credentials.json' with the path to your downloaded JSON key file, remove double inverted comma and change back slash with fwd slash, # Replace 'your_website_url' with your actual website URL:

import json

from google.oauth2 import service_account

from googleapiclient.discovery import build

from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError

# Replace 'path/to/credentials.json' with the path to your downloaded JSON key file

credentials_path = 'path/to/credentials.json'

# Authenticate using the service account credentials

credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(

    credentials_path,

    scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters']

)

try:

    # Create a Search Console service

    search_console_service = build('webmasters', 'v3', credentials=credentials)

    # Replace 'your_website_url' with your actual website URL

    website_url = 'your_website_url'

    # Get a list of all the sitemaps for the specified site

    sitemap_list = search_console_service.sitemaps().list(siteUrl=website_url).execute()

    # Loop through each sitemap and submit all URLs for indexing

    for sitemap in sitemap_list.get('sitemap', []):

        sitemap_url = sitemap['path']

        # Submit the sitemap for indexing

        search_console_service.sitemaps().submit(siteUrl=website_url, feedpath=sitemap_url).execute()

        print(f"Sitemap {sitemap_url} submitted for indexing.")

    print("Indexing process completed successfully.")

except HttpError as e:

    # Handle HTTP errors

    print(f"HTTP error occurred: {e}")

except Exception as e:

    # Handle other types of exceptions

    print(f"An unexpected error occurred: {e}")

else:

    # This block runs if there are no exceptions

    print("Script ran without errors.")

5. To Run the script:

Save the above script with a .py extension (e.g., index_webpages.py) on desktop and execute it using the following command: python name of file.py

It will show success message with list of sitemaps added for indexation.

Please share your experiences in comment section.