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EntryPoint

A Schema.org Type
An entry point, within some Web-based protocol.
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from EntryPoint
actionApplication SoftwareApplication An application that can complete the request. Supersedes application.
actionPlatform DigitalPlatformEnumeration  or
Text  or
URL
The high level platform(s) where the Action can be performed for the given URL. To specify a specific application or operating system instance, use actionApplication.
contentType Text The supported content type(s) for an EntryPoint response.
encodingType Text The supported encoding type(s) for an EntryPoint request.
httpMethod Text An HTTP method that specifies the appropriate HTTP method for a request to an HTTP EntryPoint. Values are capitalized strings as used in HTTP.
urlTemplate Text An url template (RFC6570) that will be used to construct the target of the execution of the action.
Properties from Thing
additionalType Text  or
URL
An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text  or
TextObject
A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject  or
URL
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf CreativeWork  or
Event
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
Inverse property: about
url URL URL of the item.

Instances of EntryPoint may appear as a value for the following properties
PropertyOn TypesDescription
target Action Indicates a target EntryPoint, or url, for an Action.

Acknowledgements

Hydra project
The schema.org Actions mechanism benefited from extensive discussions across the Web standards community around W3C, in particular from the Hydra project's community group.

Examples

Example 1
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
A Restaurant named "Tartine Bakery" with a ViewAction as a
potentialAction, with several target endpoints including
the simple url http://example.com/player?id=123 and
full EntryPoint descriptions for Windows and iOS SoftwareApplication
apps.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Tartine Bakery",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "ViewAction",
    "target": [
      "http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://api.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
        "contentType": "application/json+ld"
      },
      "android-app://com.urbanspoon/http/www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
        "actionApplication": {
          "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
          "@id": "284708449",
          "name": "Urbanspoon iPhone & iPad App",
          "operatingSystem": "iOS"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
        "actionApplication": {
          "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
          "@id": "5b23b738-bb64-4829-9296-5bcb59bb0d2d",
          "name": "Windows Phone App",
          "operatingSystem": "Windows Phone 8"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.