A Collection is a curated set of groups. To create one, you'll need to provide a collection name, a description, and indicate whether it should be public or private. Once created, you can assign groups to the collection using the Groups APIs.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Accredible Credential Collections API
version: 25.08.0
description: 'The Accredible Credential API allows you to create and interact with badges and certificates called Accredible Credentials. There are 3 main objects in Accredible: Credentials, Groups and Designs. ### Getting Started with the API - Video Walkthrough
# Objects Overview
## Credentials
Credentials are the core object in the API. They collect all of the data related to a course, training activity or achievement and the recipient/participant information. You should create a credential for each achievement completion that a recipient has. For example if John Doe finishes the Programming 101 course we should create one credential to represent that. If John Doe achieves something else then he would need a new credential. ## Groups
Groups represent an achievement such as a course or qualification. They contain information about the achievement and have multiple Credentials attached to them. For example you should create a group for the Introduction to Programming course. You''d provide the Course Name, Course Description and Course URL. In the future you can pass the name or ID of this group when creating a credential so that the credential is passed all the information relating to the achievement. ## Designs
Designs provide a visual specification for how a Credential should be rendered. Designs can be used across multiple Groups. For example if we have three courses: Intro to Basic Programming, Intro to Advanced Programming and Intro to DevOps each of these may have the same design for their Credentials. When creating or updating their corresponding Groups you would attach the desired design accordingly. ## Departments
Departments, if enabled for your account allow you to manage multiple, independent organization groups. Each Department is entirely separate with its own Designs, Groups, Branding, etc. You cannot share data between Departments except Billing and Administrators. ## Attributes
Attributes, are used to merge information with your badge or certificate designs and email templates. Attributes act as placeholders for information and can be added to certificate designs and email templates. ## Skills Frameworks
Skills Frameworks are structured taxonomies of skills — Accredible-maintained ones such as O*NET, ESCO and NACE, plus any your organization uploads itself. Tagging a Group against a framework version replaces the Group''s free-text `learning_outcomes` with skills that carry a stable identifier and a known position in a recognized taxonomy. For example, instead of listing `"Reading Books"` on your Introduction to Programming group, you can attach the O*NET skill `Reading Comprehension` together with the trail it sits on — Worker Requirements → Basic Skills → Content. Frameworks are read-only over the API: you discover the frameworks enabled for a department, search their skills, then select those skills when creating or updating a Group. Uploading and managing frameworks is done in the Accredible Dashboard. # API Keys
API keys are used as Authorization tokens in the header in all authenticated API endpoints. These Keys are managed in the Accredible Dashboard. There are two types of API Keys, those that are account wide and work on all assets and those that are related to a specific department. API keys scoped to a specific department can only access the resources (Credentials, Groups, Designs etc.) belonging to that department. # Single sign-on options
Single sign-on in addition to the student authentication provided by Accredible, you can also use single sign-on to authenticate your student into Accredible and they can directly sign-in. SSO is also available via our Integrations and via SAML 2.0. # Rate Limiting
We allow up to 2000 requests every 5 minutes from a single IP address, but some higher security endpoints have stricter rate limiting. Requests are counted in 30 second periods.'
servers:
- url: https://api.accredible.com/
description: Production environment - US
- url: https://eu.api.accredible.com/
description: Production environment - EU
- url: https://sandbox.api.accredible.com/
description: Sandbox environment - Testing environment
tags:
- name: Collections
description: 'A Collection is a curated set of groups.
To create one, you''ll need to provide a collection name, a description, and indicate whether it should be public or private. Once created, you can assign groups to the collection using the Groups APIs.'
paths:
/v1/collections:
post:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content: {}
summary: Create a Collection
operationId: CreateACollection
description: ''
tags:
- Collections
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
example:
collection:
name: Collection name
description: DESCRIPTION
public: true
schema:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: Name of the Collection.
description:
type: string
description: Description of the collection.
public:
type: boolean
description: A boolean to indicate if a collection will be public or not.
required:
- name
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X POST \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/collections\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"collection\": {\n \"name\": \"Collection name\",\n \"description\": \"DESCRIPTION\",\n \"public\": true\n },\n'"
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Create a Collection
/v1/collections/{collection_id}:
put:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content: {}
summary: Update a Collection
operationId: UpdateACollection
description: ''
tags:
- Collections
parameters:
- name: collection_id
in: path
description: ID of the collection in the form of an integer for the particular collection requested.
required: true
schema:
type: number
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
example:
collection:
name: Collection name
description: DESCRIPTION
public: true
groups:
- id: 1
- id: 2
- id: 3
schema:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: Name of the Collection.
description:
type: string
description: Description of the collection.
public:
type: boolean
description: A boolean to indicate if a collection will be public or not.
groups:
description: Full List of groups to associate with the collection
required:
- name
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X PUT \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/collections/12345\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"collection\": {\n \"name\": \"Collection name\",\n \"description\": \"DESCRIPTION\",\n \"public\": true,\n \"groups\": [\n {\n \"id\": 1\n },\n {\n \"id\": 2\n },\n {\n \"id\": 3\n }\n ]\n }\n}'"
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Update a Collection
delete:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content: {}
summary: Delete a Collection
operationId: DeleteACollection
description: ''
tags:
- Collections
parameters:
- name: collection_id
in: path
description: ID of the Collection in the form of an integer for the particular Collection requested.
required: true
schema:
type: number
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X DELETE \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/collections/12345\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\""
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Delete a Collection
/v1/collections/search:
post:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
collections:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
name:
type: string
description: {}
organization_id:
type: number
public:
type: boolean
groups_count:
type: number
groups:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: number
required:
- id
required:
- id
- name
- description
- organization_id
- public
- groups_count
- groups
meta:
type: object
properties:
current_page:
type: number
next_page:
type: number
prev_page:
type: number
total_pages:
type: number
total_count:
type: number
page_size:
type: number
example:
collections:
- id: 809fxsq0-fx89-11ef-8c4a-b7d12b7poib3
name: abc
description: null
organization_id: 231
public: true
groups_count: 1
groups:
- id: 1
- id: 666fxsq2-fx00-11cf-8c4a-11112b7poib3
name: abc
description: null
organization_id: 231
public: true
groups_count: 1
groups:
- id: 12
meta:
current_page: 10
next_page: 11
prev_page: 9
total_pages: 119
total_count: 238
page_size: 99
summary: Search for Collections
operationId: SearchForCollections
description: ''
tags:
- Collections
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- query
properties:
query:
type: object
properties:
ids:
type: array
items: {}
description: Limit the returned collections to specific collections IDs.
name:
type: string
description: Search collections by name (substring search)
public:
type: boolean
description: Limit the returned collections to public or not public collections.
exclusion_list:
type: array
items: {}
description: Exclude specific collections IDs from the search results.
sort:
type: object
properties:
String key/value pair for sorting based on a field and order.:
type: string
description: 'Supported keys - `name`, `groups_count` and `public`
Supported values - `asc`, `desc`'
meta:
type: object
properties:
page_number:
type: string
description: Defines the number of page wanted
per_page:
type: string
description: The number of records to be returned
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X POST \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/collections/search\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"query\": {\n \"ids\": [\n 1,\n 2,\n 3\n ],\n \"name\": \"John Doe\",\n \"public\": true,\n \"exclusion_list\": [\n 1,\n 2,\n 3\n ]\n },\n \"sort\": {\n \"groups_count\": \"desc\"\n },\n \"meta\": {\n \"page_number\": 1,\n \"per_page\": 20\n }\n}'"
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Search for Collections
components:
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: Authorization
description: 'Use the format: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY'
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Accredible
source: https://docs.api.accredible.com/openapi.json
note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)