action-google-indexing

GitHub Action to get your site indexed on Google in less than 48 hours based on goenning/google-indexing-script by @goenning.¹

You can read more about the motivation behind it and how it works in this blog post.

Preparation

1. Follow this guide from Google. By the end of it, you should have a project on Google Cloud with the Indexing API enabled and a service account with the Owner permission for your sites.
2. Make sure to enable both the Google Search Console API and the Web Search Indexing API via Google Project > API Services > Enabled API & Services.
3. Download the JSON file containing the credentials for your service account. Create a secret in your GitHub repository with the content of this file (see Creating secrets for a repository).

Usage

- uses: robingenz/[email protected]
  with:
    # The domain or site URL of the site to be indexed.
    # Required.
    siteUrl: ''
    # The GCP service account key in JSON format.
    # Required.
    gcpServiceAccountKey: ''

Example

name: Google Indexing
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
jobs:
  google-indexing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: robingenz/[email protected]
        with:
          siteUrl: 'example.tld'
          gcpServiceAccountKey: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}

License

See LICENSE.

Footnotes

1. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by Google LLC or any of their affiliates or subsidiaries. ↩