🎬 Video Schema Generator
Paste a YouTube link and instantly generate valid VideoObject JSON-LD schema markup to help search engines understand and showcase your video.
What is Video Schema?
Video schema (technically VideoObject structured data from Schema.org) is a snippet of JSON-LD code you add to a page that tells search engines exactly what a video is about - its title, description, thumbnail, publish date, and duration - in a format machines can read directly, rather than guessing from surrounding text.
Why it matters for SEO
Pages with valid video schema are eligible for rich results in Google Search, such as video thumbnails, duration badges, and preview carousels. This can significantly increase click-through rate, and it also helps AI-driven search engines and answer engines correctly summarize and cite your video content.
How to use this tool
- Paste the full YouTube URL (or a Shorts/youtu.be link) into the field above.
- Click "Generate Video Schema" to fetch the video's public metadata.
- Copy the generated JSON-LD block and paste it inside a
<script type="application/ld+json">tag in your page's<head>. - Validate the result with Google's Rich Results Test before publishing.
One honest note about how it fetches
Unlike most tools on this site, this one cannot work purely in your browser: the title, duration, and publish date live on YouTube's servers, so the URL you paste is sent to this site's small lookup function, which asks YouTube's public API and passes the answer straight back. Nothing is stored, and nothing else about you travels with the request.
Limits
The schema describes the video as YouTube reports it today - if the title or thumbnail changes later, the markup on your page does not follow along, so regenerate it after major edits. And the markup belongs on a page where the video is actually embedded and visible; adding VideoObject data to a page without the video is the kind of claim that costs trust with search engines rather than earning it.
Pro Tip: Always test your generated code in the Google Rich Results Test Tool to ensure it gets the green checkmark before hitting publish!
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