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24736	Document how to customize the 50000 item limit in sitemaps	Rich Jones	Abhaya Agarwal	"Hey all!

I recently ran into an interesting and reasonably soluble problem. I've switched from using a static sitemap to Django's Sitemap framework. Now, my database has a ton of items to map (>200,000), so generating the sitemap actually takes quite a long time. Unfortunately, it takes such a long time that my web server actually times out waiting for the request, which is obviously a big problem.

Rather than deal with adding exceptions in my web server or manually creating static sitemaps, I'd greatly prefer to lower the number of items on each page and have a larger number of entries on the index page.

Currently, the pagination uses a magic number of 50000, which is the maximum number of items recommended by Google. That line is here: https://github.com/django/django/blob/c2d5f2903cfaef4f8b17d86f4db706b61073a471/django/contrib/sitemaps/__init__.py#L50

I'd greatly prefer it if this was available as a configurable setting. 

This would be a very simple, 2-line fix:

One to add a

SITEMAP_MAX_ITEMS = 50000

to Django's default settings,and another change the line linked about to

limit = settings.SITEMAP_MAX_ITEMS

It's a small change, but this would be greatly useful to me and other Django sites with lots of items that use the Sitemap framework. In the meantime, I'm just going try to override default Sitemap object.

What do you guys think? Does this make sense to you?"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Documentation	dev	Normal	fixed	sitemap		Accepted	1	0	0	0	1	0