A standard-library Python CLI by Ahmadreza Samadi for checking video publication dates in local HTML JSON-LD and optional video sitemaps. It reports impossible dates, missing timezone information, future aware instants and inconsistent instants for repeated exact video URLs.

It reads inputs without changing them, makes no network requests and supports text or JSON diagnostics. Strict datetime, required sitemap dates and required video presence are separate policy options.

MIT licensed, developed with AI assistance, with synthetic behavioral tests. Syntax and consistency checks do not prove actual first publication, complete schema compliance, indexing eligibility or ranking improvements.

Documentation and source: https://github.com/ahmadreza-smdi/video-date-lint

Maintainer: https://a-samadi.com/about.html