Django Google News Sitemap

Question

Does anyone know how to implement the Google news sitemap standard on Django? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/news-sitemap

I am struggling to find any mention of how its implemented with Django.

Example of how it should look.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
  <url>
   <loc>http://www.example.org/business/article55.html</loc>
   <news:news>
   <news:publication>
     <news:name>The Example Times</news:name>
     <news:language>en</news:language>
   </news:publication>
   <news:publication_date>2008-12-23</news:publication_date>
     <news:title>Companies A, B in Merger Talks</news:title>
    </news:news>
  </url>
</urlset>

What I currently have looks very simple.

<url>
<loc>https://example.net/news/this-news-article/</loc>
<lastmod>2022-04-04</lastmod>
</url>
<url>

Answer 1

As of now the question is quite general, as one doesn't have access to the code OP is using.

So, taking that, the goal is to learn how to do it. For that there are at least two GitHub projects that I could find which implement a similar logic. In other words, they can be used to infer how to do it; there's a combination between urls.py, templates, ... in order to reach the desired goal... which isn't super straightforward to put it into an answer.

Here one can find the links to the projects

• Django project created by callowayproject. In it you have an application named news_sitemaps where you can see most of the logic relevant for the sitemap.
• image-sitemaps. In it there's an app named imagesitemaps with the logic i was talking about.

If one is looking for tutorials, these that DavidW shared might be useful:

• Django Sitemap Tutorial

• How to Create a Dynamic Django Sitemap