Ping IndexNow crawlers after GitHub Pages deployment

.github/workflows/ping-indexnow.yml

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+name: Ping IndexNow
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: ["pages-build-deployment"]
+    types:
+      - completed
+jobs:
+  ping:
+    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          ref: source
+      - name: Fetch live sitemap and ping IndexNow
+        run: |
+          curl -sf -o sitemap.xml https://pybuilder.io/sitemap.xml
+          $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/ping-indexnow.sh sitemap.xml f70e81d625534adb96e7e8d5bd0b438b

_config.yml

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   - .nojekyll
 exclude:
   - build.sh
+  - ping-indexnow.sh
   - deploy.key
   - deploy.key.enc
 twitter:

f70e81d625534adb96e7e8d5bd0b438b.txt

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+f70e81d625534adb96e7e8d5bd0b438b

ping-indexnow.sh

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+#!/bin/bash -eEu
+
+# Ping IndexNow with all URLs from the sitemap.
+# IndexNow distributes to Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, and Yep.
+# Google does not participate in IndexNow (deprecated their ping endpoint in 2023).
+
+SITEMAP_FILE="${1:?Usage: $0 <sitemap-file> <indexnow-key>}"
+INDEXNOW_KEY="${2:?Usage: $0 <sitemap-file> <indexnow-key>}"
+SITE_HOST="pybuilder.io"
+
+# Extract URLs from sitemap XML
+URLS=$(python3 -c "
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+tree = ET.parse('$SITEMAP_FILE')
+ns = {'s': 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9'}
+for loc in tree.findall('.//s:loc', ns):
+    print(loc.text)
+")
+
+if [ -z "$URLS" ]; then
+    echo "No URLs found in sitemap"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+URL_COUNT=$(echo "$URLS" | wc -l)
+echo "Submitting $URL_COUNT URLs to IndexNow"
+
+# Build JSON URL list
+URL_JSON=$(echo "$URLS" | python3 -c "
+import sys, json
+urls = [line.strip() for line in sys.stdin if line.strip()]
+print(json.dumps(urls))
+")
+
+RESPONSE=$(curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" -X POST "https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow" \
+    -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
+    -d "{
+        \"host\": \"$SITE_HOST\",
+        \"key\": \"$INDEXNOW_KEY\",
+        \"keyLocation\": \"https://$SITE_HOST/$INDEXNOW_KEY.txt\",
+        \"urlList\": $URL_JSON
+    }")
+
+HTTP_CODE=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | tail -1)
+BODY=$(echo "$RESPONSE" | head -n -1)
+
+echo "IndexNow response: HTTP $HTTP_CODE"
+if [ -n "$BODY" ]; then
+    echo "$BODY"
+fi
+
+case "$HTTP_CODE" in
+    200|202) echo "IndexNow submission accepted" ;;
+    *) echo "IndexNow submission failed"; exit 1 ;;
+esac