How to find all pages on a website: 7 methods

Exa’s guide explains that no single method can reliably identify every page on a website, recommending comparison of multiple sources such as crawls, search-engine results, XML sitemaps, CMS exports, URL extractors, command-line tools, and Google Search Console. Crawlers reveal internally linked pages but can miss orphaned or JavaScript-generated content, while sitemaps, CMS data, and indexed search results each offer incomplete but complementary perspectives. The guide advises checking robots.txt and sitemap indexes first, using tools such as Firecrawl or Simplescraper for no-code extraction, and selecting Scrapy, wget, or Playwright when developers need greater control or JavaScript rendering. For site owners, Search Console can help validate index coverage, while comparing crawl results against sitemaps, CMS records, or Search Console exports can identify orphan pages. Once URLs are collected, Exa Contents can process them in bulk to produce clean text, highlights, summaries, or structured data for audits, migrations, and AI applications.

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