The Scenario
You're the site reliability engineer for a large news publisher. You maintain eight sitemaps — one per content section. Every Friday, you drop a sitemap health snapshot into the #seo-infra Slack channel and into the shared infra review doc. The snapshot has always been assembled manually: open Search Console, click Sitemaps, read the numbers, type them into an Excel workbook one by one.
It's Thursday at 5:30 PM. There are eight sitemaps. Last time you counted, this process took 40 minutes.
The bad version:
- Open Search Console for the property, navigate to Sitemaps, open sitemap 1.
- Read: submitted URLs, indexed URLs, last submission date, any warnings or errors.
- Type all of that into the workbook. Tab to the next row.
- Open sitemap 2. Repeat.
- Discover on sitemap 5 that the error count went up since last week, note it manually, then realize you didn't capture last week's numbers so you can't calculate the delta.
Forty minutes of reading numbers off a screen and typing them into another screen. Every single week.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, connects to Google Search Console through its built-in integration, and writes sitemap metadata for every sitemap on your property in one operation.
Open your infra tracking workbook. Paste this:
Pull sitemap metadata for all sitemaps on my domain from Search Console and populate my Excel workbook with columns for sitemap URL, submitted, indexed, errors, and warnings
What You Get
- One row per sitemap.
- Columns: Sitemap URL, Submitted, Indexed, Errors, Warnings, Last Submitted.
- All eight sitemaps in one pass — no clicking through each one manually.
- Last Submitted is written in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS UTC) so you can sort or filter by recency.
- Error and warning counts are integers — zero if clean, not blank.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to flag sitemaps where the indexed count has fallen significantly below submitted
List all sitemaps for my site from Search Console and write the full metadata into my "Sitemap Health" worksheet — then add a column called "Index Gap %" that calculates (Submitted - Indexed) / Submitted, and flag any sitemap where that value exceeds 15% with "Review"
You need to track week-over-week changes
Pull sitemap metadata for all sitemaps on my site from Search Console and write it into a new row in my "Weekly Sitemap Log" worksheet using today's date in column A — do not overwrite existing rows, append below the last populated row
You want to match sitemap URLs against your expected sitemap list
Fetch all sitemap data from Search Console for my site, write it into the "Sitemap Snapshot" worksheet, then check each sitemap URL against the expected list in column A of my "Expected Sitemaps" worksheet — flag any expected sitemap that doesn't appear in the Search Console data as "Missing" in column G
The full infra review snapshot in one prompt
List all sitemaps from Search Console for my site, write submitted, indexed, errors, warnings, and last submission date into my "Infra Review" worksheet, flag any sitemap with errors > 0 as "Error" in a Status column, flag any sitemap where indexed < submitted × 0.85 as "Index Gap," and write a summary at the bottom: total submitted, total indexed, and count of sitemaps with any flag
One prompt generates the complete weekly snapshot, with flags and summary, ready to paste into the review doc.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook you use for your weekly infra or SEO health reviews. Ask it to pull the full sitemap snapshot from Search Console so Thursday's 40-minute manual process becomes a single prompt. See also bulk URL inspection for crawl status at the individual URL level, or the hub overview for all Search Console workflows in Excel.