Data transmission methods

If you use the built-in player of a large video hosting site such as YouTube to display your videos, no additional markup is required to transfer data to Yandex. The robot will index your site videos and add them to the video search results.

Otherwise, you can use micro markup to transmit video information.

You can use semantic markup (or micro markup) to quickly transmit information about changes in your video content.

To transmit data:

  1. Add micro video markup to the site pages.

    Our robot can index videos on pages marked up according to the OpenGraphProtocol standard and with a VideoObject schema according to the Schema.org standard.

    Add using Open Graph

    To mark up the pages correctly, specify a namespace in the html tag and enable meta tags in the head element with video information.

    The namespace for the Yandex extension must be specified in the html tag together with prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#".

    <html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# 
              video: http://ogp.me/ns/video#">
    Add using Schema.org

    To send video information to the robot, add markup directly to the HTML code of the pages using special attributes.

  2. Make sure that the metadata on your pages are recognized correctly. You can do this using the semantic markup validator. To learn more about the validator, go to Help.

  3. Inform the robot about the marked-up videos.

    Because the Open Graph and Schema.org markups are added to the site page, it's enough to create a standard sitemap file for them with links to the site pages with markup.

  4. Check that the videos appeared in the search.

    The specified video links appear in the search automatically when the site pages with markup are indexed. If after a while your videos don't appear in the search, contact us.

Restrictions on video content

We reserve the right to not index some videos. These include:

  • Videos on sites without content moderation.

  • Offensive and/or pornographic videos.

  • Videos that violate the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

  • Videos posted on sites that don't meet the conditions of the License to use Yandex search engine.

There's no maximum or minimum limit on the number of videos. We can process any number of your videos and any video size, as well as take into account the growth dynamics of your video database.