From fe35ad4f47fa752b68b8a938e0c18a5ab6ad6102 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:37:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: closes #13968, add sitemap cache duration

---
 install/data/defaults.json                       |  1 +
 .../en-GB/admin/settings/web-crawler.json        |  1 +
 src/sitemap.js                                   | 16 ++++++++++------
 src/views/admin/settings/web-crawler.tpl         |  5 +++++
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/install/data/defaults.json b/install/data/defaults.json
index 5b1f91eeb7..449234192c 100644
--- a/install/data/defaults.json
+++ b/install/data/defaults.json
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
     "feeds:disableSitemap": 0,
     "feeds:disableRSS": 0,
     "sitemapTopics": 500,
+    "sitemapCacheDurationHours": 24,
     "maintenanceMode": 0,
     "maintenanceModeStatus": 503,
     "upvoteVisibility": "all",
diff --git a/public/language/en-GB/admin/settings/web-crawler.json b/public/language/en-GB/admin/settings/web-crawler.json
index 2e0d31d12b..b398d764ba 100644
--- a/public/language/en-GB/admin/settings/web-crawler.json
+++ b/public/language/en-GB/admin/settings/web-crawler.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 	"disable-rss-feeds": "Disable RSS Feeds",
 	"disable-sitemap-xml": "Disable Sitemap.xml",
 	"sitemap-topics": "Number of Topics to display in the Sitemap",
+	"sitemap-cache-duration-hours": "Sitemap Cache Duration (hours)",
 	"clear-sitemap-cache": "Clear Sitemap Cache",
 	"view-sitemap": "View Sitemap"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/sitemap.js b/src/sitemap.js
index 6e17514352..2260c9b466 100644
--- a/src/sitemap.js
+++ b/src/sitemap.js
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ async function getSitemapPages() {
 	return data.urls;
 }
 
+function getCacheExpireTimestamp() {
+	return Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * (meta.config.sitemapCacheDurationHours || 24));
+}
+
 sitemap.getPages = async function () {
 	if (sitemap.maps.pages && Date.now() < sitemap.maps.pagesCacheExpireTimestamp) {
 		return sitemap.maps.pages;
@@ -68,12 +72,12 @@ sitemap.getPages = async function () {
 	const urls = await getSitemapPages();
 	if (!urls.length) {
 		sitemap.maps.pages = '';
-		sitemap.maps.pagesCacheExpireTimestamp = Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
+		sitemap.maps.pagesCacheExpireTimestamp = getCacheExpireTimestamp();
 		return sitemap.maps.pages;
 	}
 
 	sitemap.maps.pages = await urlsToSitemap(urls);
-	sitemap.maps.pagesCacheExpireTimestamp = Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
+	sitemap.maps.pagesCacheExpireTimestamp = getCacheExpireTimestamp();
 	return sitemap.maps.pages;
 };
 
@@ -105,12 +109,12 @@ sitemap.getCategories = async function () {
 
 	if (!categoryUrls.length) {
 		sitemap.maps.categories = '';
-		sitemap.maps.categoriesCacheExpireTimestamp = Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
+		sitemap.maps.categoriesCacheExpireTimestamp = getCacheExpireTimestamp();
 		return sitemap.maps.categories;
 	}
 
 	sitemap.maps.categories = await urlsToSitemap(categoryUrls);
-	sitemap.maps.categoriesCacheExpireTimestamp = Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
+	sitemap.maps.categoriesCacheExpireTimestamp = getCacheExpireTimestamp();
 	return sitemap.maps.categories;
 };
 
@@ -140,7 +144,7 @@ sitemap.getTopicPage = async function (page) {
 	if (!data.topics.length) {
 		sitemap.maps.topics[page - 1] = {
 			sm: '',
-			cacheExpireTimestamp: Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24),
+			cacheExpireTimestamp: getCacheExpireTimestamp(),
 		};
 		return sitemap.maps.topics[page - 1].sm;
 	}
@@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ sitemap.getTopicPage = async function (page) {
 
 	sitemap.maps.topics[page - 1] = {
 		sm: await urlsToSitemap(topicUrls),
-		cacheExpireTimestamp: Date.now() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24),
+		cacheExpireTimestamp: getCacheExpireTimestamp(),
 	};
 
 	return sitemap.maps.topics[page - 1].sm;
diff --git a/src/views/admin/settings/web-crawler.tpl b/src/views/admin/settings/web-crawler.tpl
index ebb51d728d..e2be849fec 100644
--- a/src/views/admin/settings/web-crawler.tpl
+++ b/src/views/admin/settings/web-crawler.tpl
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
 					<input id="sitemapTopics" class="form-control" type="text" data-field="sitemapTopics" />
 				</div>
 
+				<div class="mb-3">
+					<label class="form-label" for="sitemapCacheDurationHours">[[admin/settings/web-crawler:sitemap-cache-duration-hours]]</label>
+					<input id="sitemapCacheDurationHours" class="form-control" type="text" data-field="sitemapCacheDurationHours" />
+				</div>
+
 				<p>
 					<button id="clear-sitemap-cache" class="btn btn-sm btn-warning">[[admin/settings/web-crawler:clear-sitemap-cache]]</button>
 					<a href="{config.relative_path}/sitemap.xml" target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-light">[[admin/settings/web-crawler:view-sitemap]]</a>