Skip to main content

Schema piece - VideoObject

Describes an individual video (usually in the context of an embedded media object).

Triggers​

Should be added as top-level nodes in the graph, as/when required by other nodes. E.g., when a WebPage contains an embedded video.

Required properties​

A valid VideoObject must have the following properties.

  • @type: VideoObject.
  • @id: The site's home URL appended by #/schema/VideoObject/{{ID}}, where {{ID}} is a unique identifier.
  • name: The title of the video.
  • description: A description of the video (falling back to the caption, then to 'No description').
  • thumbnail: A reference-by-ID to an ImageObject representing the video content.
  • uploadDate: The date the video was published, in ISO 8601 format (e.g., 2020-01-20).

Failure scenarios​

If any of the required fields are missing or invalid, the node should not be output.

If the node is not output, any entities which would otherwise have declared a relationship with the VideoObject (e.g., as a part of an Article) should remove those references.

Optional properties​

The following should be added whenever available and valid:

  • caption: A caption summarising the video.
  • contentUrl: A URL pointing directly to the video file.
  • embedUrl: A URL pointing to a player for the video.
  • duration: The duration of the video in ISO 8601 format.
  • width: The width of the video in pixels.
  • height: The height of the video in pixels.
  • isFamilyFriendly: Whether the video should be considered 'family friendly', default to true, may be set to false.
  • inLanguage: The language code for the content of the video; e.g., en-GB.

Conditional properties​

Optional properties which should only be output when the required criteria is met.

On AMP templates​

  • publisher: A reference-by-ID to the publisher of the video.

Examples​

Minimum criteria​

{
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@graph": [
          {
              "@type": "VideoObject",
              "@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/VideoObject/abc123",
              "name": "Example video",
              "description": "Example video description",
              "thumbnailUrl": {
                  "@id": "https://www.example.com/uploads/example-image.jpg"
              },
              "uploadDate": "2016-03-31T08:00:00+08:00"
          }
      ]
  }

Extended criteria​

{
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@graph": [
          {
              "@id": "https://www.example.com/#/schema/VideoObject/abc123",
              "@type": "VideoObject",
              "contentUrl": "https://www.example.com/videos/video123.mp4",
              "description": "Example video description",
              "duration": "PT1M54S",
              "embedUrl": "https://www.example.com/videos/embed/video123/",
              "height": 640,
              "inLanguage": "en-US",
              "isFamilyFriendly": true,
              "name": "Example video",
              "thumbnail": {
                  "@id": "https://www.example.com/uploads/example-image.jpg"
              },
              "uploadDate": "2016-03-31",
              "width": 480
          }
      ]
  }