Vivek Shukla - SEOI am a Software Engineer from India. I am currently building Daestro. I work in Rust, Javascript and Python.Zola2026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00https://vshukla.com/tags/seo/atom.xmlIndexNow Bulk URL Submit Using Curl2026-04-26T00:00:00+00:002026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00Vivek Shuklahttps://vshukla.com/snippets/index-now-bulk-url-submit-api/IndexNow is a service which is used to inform search engines i.e. Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex and Yep, about the content updates. This improves indexing.<p>IndexNow is a service which is used to inform search engines i.e. Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex and Yep, about the content updates. This improves indexing. <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://www.bing.com/indexnow">More info</a>.</p>
<p><strong>IndexNow API supports upto 10,000 links submission in a day.</strong></p>
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<p>Make sure to have a randomly generated key <code>c3755574c3ae4c259262854b0f241ec8.txt</code> at the root of your website. <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://www.bing.com/indexnow/getstarted">Generate key here</a></p>
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<h2 id="payload"><a class="zola-anchor" href="#payload" aria-label="Anchor link for: payload">🔗</a>Payload</h2>
<p><strong><code>payload.json</code></strong></p>
<pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="json"><span class="giallo-l"><span>{</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-type z-property-name"> "host"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">:</span><span class="z-string"> "example.com"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">,</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-type z-property-name"> "key"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">:</span><span class="z-string"> "random-key"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">,</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-type z-property-name"> "keyLocation"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">:</span><span class="z-string"> "https://example.com/random-key.txt"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">,</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-type z-property-name"> "urlList"</span><span class="z-punctuation z-separator">:</span><span> [</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-string"> "https://example.com/blog"</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span> ]</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span>}</span></span></code></pre><h2 id="curl"><a class="zola-anchor" href="#curl" aria-label="Anchor link for: curl">🔗</a>Curl</h2>
<pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="shellscript"><span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">curl</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -v -X</span><span class="z-string"> POST https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -H</span><span class="z-string"> "Content-Type: application/json"</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -d</span><span class="z-string"> @payload.json</span></span></code></pre>