Installation

Requirements

• Craft CMS 5.3 or later
• PHP 8.2 or later, with openssl and mbstring

No other dependencies. Sanka uses the HTTP client Craft already ships.

Install

composer require justinholtweb/craft-sanka
php craft plugin/install sanka

Or find Sanka in the Craft Plugin Store and install it from there.

Nothing is submitted until you say so

Sanka installs in dry run, with no rules. Both are deliberate.

Dry run records every submission in the log with what would have been sent, and sends nothing. No rules means saving an entry submits nothing at all. A plugin that started spending a 200-a-day quota the moment it was installed would be doing something you never asked for.

So the first thing Sanka does is nothing, visibly, until you have looked at it.

Your first submission

1. Turn on IndexNow. Go to Settings → Sanka, switch IndexNow on and generate a key. That is the whole setup — Sanka serves the key file itself, from a route, so there is nothing to upload and nothing to redeploy when the key changes.
2. Add a rule. In the Rules table, choose a section, tick the events that should trigger a submission, and tick the engines that should hear about it.
3. Save an entry in that section.
4. Look at Sanka → Submissions. There is a row, marked skipped, saying “Dry run — nothing was sent.” That is the whole pipeline working.
5. Run php craft sanka/diagnostics. It checks everything that could be wrong, in the order it would break.
6. When the log looks right, turn dry run off.

Google takes longer to set up and needs a step outside Craft — see Configuration.

Editions

Lite does the indexing. Pro adds the GEO half — the part that deals with AI search engines — plus the bulk and scheduling tools you need once a site is big enough to have a backlog.

	Lite	Pro
Price	$0	$129, $99/year renewal
Google Indexing API — submit, remove, status lookup	✅	✅
IndexNow — Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep	✅	✅
Submit on publish, update, unpublish and delete	✅	✅
Submit console — paste URLs, choose engines	✅	✅
The submissions ledger, with reasons for everything	✅	✅
Quota tracking, cooldown, retries and backoff	✅	✅
Dry run	✅	✅
Panel on the entry edit screen	✅	✅
craft.sanka.* Twig API	✅	✅
Auto-submit rules	3	unlimited
llms.txt and llms-full.txt	—	✅
AI crawler policy — 22 agents, rendered to robots.txt	—	✅
AI crawler visit log, with reverse-DNS verification	—	✅
GEO readiness audit — 20 checks, remediation-first	—	✅
Sitemap resubmission	—	✅
Scheduled sweeps	—	✅
Bulk submit by section	—	✅
CSV export of the ledger	—	✅

Lite is not a trial. It does the whole indexing job, for nothing, forever.

What happens when the renewal lapses

Pro keeps working. Renewals buy updates, the way every Craft plugin licence does. Sanka also downgrades rather than breaking: the Pro features stop, the Lite feature set carries on indexing, and nothing you configured is discarded — renewing restores exactly what was there.