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Ping IndexNow crawlers after GitHub Pages deployment#97

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@arcivanov arcivanov commented Apr 8, 2026

Summary

  • Add ping-indexnow.yml workflow triggered by successful pages-build-deployment completion
  • Fetches the live sitemap from pybuilder.io and submits all individual page URLs to IndexNow
  • IndexNow distributes to Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, and Yep
  • Includes IndexNow key verification file deployed to site root

Google deprecated their sitemap ping endpoint in 2023 and offers no CI-callable API for general websites. The existing robots.txt Sitemap: directive is the only passive mechanism available for Google.

Test plan

  • Verify pages-build-deploymentping-indexnow workflow chain triggers on push to source
  • Verify IndexNow returns HTTP 200/202
  • Verify key file is accessible at https://pybuilder.io/f70e81d625534adb96e7e8d5bd0b438b.txt

Add a workflow that triggers after the pages-build-deployment
completes successfully, fetches the live sitemap, and submits
all page URLs to IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, Yep).
Google deprecated their ping endpoint in 2023 and offers no
CI-callable alternative.
@arcivanov arcivanov merged commit f153c11 into source Apr 8, 2026
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