Article Schema Generator: Free Article JSON-LD

Article schema is the structured data that tells search engines and AI crawlers exactly what a piece of content is: its headline, who wrote it, who published it, and when. This generator turns a short form into valid Article JSON-LD you can paste straight into a page, without hand-writing any code or guessing at field names.

What Article schema covers

The Article type is the base structured data format for editorial content on schema.org. It carries a headline, an optional description, an author (a person or an organization), a publisher, a featured image, and two dates: when the piece was published and when it was last updated. Google uses these fields to understand and display your content correctly, and AI answer engines use the same fields to attribute a claim to a specific author and date when they cite your page.

Article vs NewsArticle vs BlogPosting

These three types share the same required fields, so the markup this tool produces is valid for all of them. Article is the general-purpose choice for guides, explainers and evergreen content. NewsArticle is meant for timely news coverage and is what Google looks for when deciding eligibility for Google News and Top Stories. BlogPosting is simply the conventional choice for blog posts. Unless you specifically publish breaking news, Article is the safest, most broadly accepted type to ship.

Getting the dates and headline right

Two details trip people up more than anything else in Article schema. First, headline length: Google recommends staying under 110 characters, since longer headlines risk being truncated or rewritten in search results, which this tool flags automatically as you type. Second, dateModified: it is optional, but leaving it out means your content always reads as static from the date it was first published. Updating dateModified whenever you meaningfully revise a page is a small habit that keeps both search engines and AI crawlers treating your content as current.