PHP code to generate Schema Markup Code to add Video object to web page

How to add Video object with schema markup to the web page? We can see videos appearing in search result. How to generate structured data so the same can be used as markup for the YouTube published videos.

We will be using Google YouTube API to connect and fetch data. Read more on Google Developers YouTube API

Developing the schema in PHP

We will first extract the video id from the URL we copied from YouTube. Here we can use one form so we can easily paste the URL in a textbox and submit the form to same page.

Generating Schema Code in PHP for Rich results while using Video inside Webpage using Youtube API

After receiving the URL we will break the string by using explode() and get the video id part.

echo "<form method=post action=''>
<input type=text name=t1 class='Form-control'>
<input type=submit value='Go'></form>";
$url=$_REQUEST['t1']; // Collect the user submitted youtube URL

//$url="https://youtu.be/8myaNdeRKwk"; // sample to try

$ar=explode("/",$url); // breaking the string 
$videoId=$ar[3];   // get the last part , the id only

After getting the $vidioId we will use Google Developers YouTube API to get data from YouTube.

We need the following ( minimum ) data from YouTube to generate our code. Name : the title of the video
embadUrl : the URL of the video
uploadDate : Date of upload of video to the YouTube
thumbnailURL : URL of the thumbnail used for the video.
Description : the Description we submitted while uploading the video or edited afterwards.

We are preparing a variable $str with the code and finally we will display the value of the string variable $str inside one Textbox for the user to select and copy the code.

$apikey = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';
//$videoId='DLF2wvDqrwo'; // sample to try 
if(strlen($videoId) >3){
$path="https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?key=";
$path=$path.$apikey."&part=snippet&id=".$videoId;	
$data = file_get_contents($path);
$json = json_decode($data);
$title_4983=$json->items[0]->snippet->title;
$uploadDate_4983=$json->items[0]->snippet->publishedAt;
$embedUrl_4983='https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId;
$thumbnailUrl_4983=$json->items[0]->snippet->thumbnails->standard->url;
$description_4983=$title=$json->items[0]->snippet->description;
// with these variables start creating the
// string variable with code
$str="
<div itemprop=\"video\" 
itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/VideoObject\">
<span itemprop=\"name\">$title_4983</span><br>
<meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"$embedUrl_4983\"/>
<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"$uploadDate_4983\" />
<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"$thumbnailUrl_4983\"/>
<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"$description_4983\"/>
<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"$embedUrl_4983\"
 title=\"$title_4983\" frameborder=\"0\" 
 allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; 
 encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 
 allowfullscreen>
</iframe></div>";
}else{
	$str='';
}

Now our $str is ready with the code, let us display it inside one textarea.

echo "<textarea name='code_dump' rows=10  id='code_dump'>
$str
</textarea>";

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