Name and Avatars from YouTube WebMention

[edent]

This video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgupWEV13M - mentions my blog. Manually sending a WebMention correctly sets the URl.

But the name is set as "YouTube", with no avatar set.

The HTML contains this linked data:

<script type="application/ld+json" nonce="hyPO7lV__4v80AG_xq8dng">{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "VideoObject",
  "@id": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgupWEV13M",
  "name": "GrapheneOS can help you retake your privacy, right now.",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aNgupWEV13M/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "uploadDate": "2026-02-21T05:23:48-08:00",
  "comment": [
    {
      "@type": "https://schema.org/Comment",
      "dateCreated": "2026-02-21T12:52:35-08:00",
      "text": "Half of y'all didn't get to my \"But Veronica\" in this episode, lol. Stop saying \"it's only for Pixel\" and watch videos before commenting.",
      "author": {
        "@type": "https://schema.org/Person",
        "name": "@VeronicaExplains",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains",
        "alternateName": "Veronica Explains"
      },
      "upvoteCount": 157
    }
  ]
}</script>

That contains an author name which probably should be used in preference to "YouTube".

There's no easy way to get the user's avatar image. But perhaps using the YouTube favicon could be an alternative?

[dshanske]

If you notice, we do have a json ld handler, but it doesn't handle video objects. We would probably have to decide there how to map that to our common Microformats vocabulary.

The favicon as avatar is I think, a broader question beyond just YouTube.