site-explorer

name

site-explorer

description

Creates an interactive website map — a zoomable JointJS tree showing every page of a documentation or marketing site, grouped by section, with click-to-open and search. Use when the user wants to visualize the structure of a website, explore a docs site, create a sitemap tree, or map out page hierarchy. Examples: 'create a site map for docs.jointjs.com', 'build a website explorer for react.dev', 'show me the structure of the Next.js docs', 'map out this documentation site', 'visualize the page hierarchy of stripe.com/docs', 'build a sitemap tree for our website'.

Site Explorer Playground

Generates a self-contained HTML file with a zoomable JointJS tree showing every page of a website — pages as nodes colored by section, parent/child URL hierarchy as links, click-to-open, search, and section filter pills.

Key difference from other skills: Claude fetches the data (sitemap.xml or root page) during skill execution, then embeds it hardcoded in the HTML. The HTML itself makes no network requests.

How to use this skill

1. Fetch the sitemap — see Phase 1 below
2. Parse URLs into a tree — Phase 2
3. Compute layout — Phase 3
4. Load the template from templates/site-explorer.md and write the HTML file
5. Open in browser — open <filename>-site-explorer.html

Filename: <domain>-site-explorer.html — e.g. docs-jointjs-site-explorer.html, react-dev-site-explorer.html

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Phase 1 — Fetch

Try in order, stop when you get data:

1. WebFetch('<baseUrl>/sitemap.xml')
2. WebFetch('<baseUrl>/sitemap_index.xml')  → lists sub-sitemaps, fetch each
3. WebFetch('<baseUrl>/sitemap/')
4. WebFetch(baseUrl)  → parse <a href> links from the HTML as fallback

Extract all <loc> values from XML, or all internal href values from HTML. Filter to URLs that start with baseUrl — discard external links, anchors (#), and query strings. Deduplicate. Aim for 20–200 URLs — if more, keep only paths with depth ≤ 3.

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Phase 2 — Build tree

function buildTree(urls, baseUrl) {
  const nodes = new Map();
  const root = { id: '__root__', label: baseUrl.replace(/https?:\/\//, ''), url: baseUrl, depth: 0, children: [] };
  nodes.set('__root__', root);

  // Normalize: strip baseUrl, leading/trailing slashes
  const paths = urls
    .map(u => u.replace(baseUrl, '').replace(/^\/|\/$/g, ''))
    .filter(p => p.length > 0)
    .sort(); // sort so parents are always created before children

  paths.forEach(path => {
    const segments = path.split('/');
    segments.forEach((seg, i) => {
      const id = segments.slice(0, i + 1).join('/');
      if (nodes.(id)) ;
       parentId = i ===  ?  : segments.(, i).();
       node = {
        id,
        : (seg).(, ),
        : baseUrl +  + id,
        :  + id,
        : seg,
        : i + ,
        : segments[],  
        : [],
      };
      nodes.(id, node);
       parent = nodes.(parentId);
       (parent) parent..(node);
    });
  });

   { root, nodes };
}

Trim ghost nodes: if a URL segment appears only as a parent (no actual page at that URL), mark it isGhost: true — render it smaller/dimmer.

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Phase 3 — Layout

Compute x/y positions with a simple level-order layout. Center each level horizontally:

const NW = 150, NH = 44, H_GAP = 24, V_GAP = 72;

function layoutTree(root) {
  // BFS to collect levels
  const levels = [];
  const queue = [root];
  while (queue.length) {
    const node = queue.shift();
    if (!levels[node.depth]) levels[node.depth] = [];
    levels[node.depth].push(node);
    node.children.forEach(c => queue.push(c));
  }

  // Compute tree width from the widest level, then center all levels within it
  const maxLevelW = Math.max(...levels.map(lvl => lvl.length * NW + Math.max(0, lvl.length - 1) * H_GAP));
  const TREE_W = maxLevelW + 160; // padding on each side

  levels.forEach(() => {
     totalW = level. *  + .(, level. - ) * ;
     offsetX = ( - totalW) / ;
    level.( {
      node. = offsetX + i * ( + );
      node. = depth * ( + ) + ;
    });
  });
}

For large trees (>80 nodes), collapse leaf-heavy subtrees: represent them as a single summary node ("14 pages") that expands on click.

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Template

See templates/site-explorer.md for the full HTML spec including:

• PageNode JointJS element definition
• Section color palette
• Search + section filter + depth toggle
• Ancestor path highlight on hover
• Click to open URL
• Pan/zoom
• Status bar

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Required: Powered by JointJS badge

Always include in every generated HTML file — no exceptions. Full spec with position-conflict rules is in the template (## Powered by JointJS badge), but reproduced here so it is never missed:

CSS (inside <style>):

#powered-by {
  position: absolute; top: 12px; right: 12px; z-index: 10;
  display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 7px;
  background: #161b22cc; border: 1px solid #30363d; border-radius: 8px;
  padding: 10px 20px 10px 18px; text-decoration: none;
  color: #8b949e; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 500;
  backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
  transition: border-color 160ms, color 160ms, background 160ms;
}
#powered-by:hover { border-color: #58a6ff; color: #c9d1d9; background: #1c2d40cc; }
#powered-by img { margin-left: 5px; height: 18px; width: auto; opacity: ; : opacity ; }
  { : ; }

HTML (first child inside #canvas-wrap):

<a id="powered-by" href="https://jointjs.com?utm_source=jointjs-claude-playground&utm_medium=site-explorer&utm_campaign=claude-code" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  <span style="color:#6e7681;font-size:10px;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase">Powered by</span>
  <div class="pb-sep"></div>
  <img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63061d4ee85b5a18644f221c/633045c1d726c7116dcbe582_JJS_logo.svg" alt="JointJS" />
</a>

Pitfalls

Problem	Fix
Sitemap returns 404	Fall back to fetching root page and parsing <a href> links
Sitemap index lists sub-sitemaps	Fetch each sub-sitemap and merge all <loc> values
Hundreds of URLs	Keep depth ≤ 3, or summarize leaf clusters into count nodes
URL segments are UUIDs/IDs	Label them as the parent + "#N" — they're likely dynamic routes
No clear section grouping	Use depth-1 segments as sections; if only one, use depth-2
Ghost parent paths (no real page)	Render smaller, dimmer, no click handler