Accredible References API
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Accredible Credential References 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: References
description: Resources related to References. References provide more information about how the recipient met an achievement. Typically this would be a peer, teacher or manager giving their feedback.
paths:
/v1/credentials/{credential_id}/references:
post:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: number
description:
type: string
referee:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
email:
type: string
avatar:
type: string
supplemental:
type: boolean
relationship:
type: string
example:
reference:
id: 1234
description: John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts
referee:
name: Jane Doe
email: jdoe@example.com
avatar: https://www.example.com/avatars/janedoe.png
supplemental: false
relationship: managed
summary: Create a New Reference
operationId: CreateANewReference
description: You may create a Reference using this action. It takes a JSON object containing a Reference.
tags:
- References
parameters:
- name: credential_id
in: path
description: ID of the Credential in the form of a string integer for the particular Credential requested.
required: true
schema:
type: string
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
example:
reference:
description: John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts
referee:
name: Jane Doe
email: person@example.com
relationship: managed
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
description:
type: string
description: The reference comments / text.
relationship:
type: string
enum:
- taught
- managed
- mentored
- worked
- studied
- friends
- stranger
- professor
description: 'Must be one of: "taught", "managed", "mentored", "worked", "studied", "friends", "stranger", "professor".'
referee:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: Name of the person providing the reference.
email:
type: string
description: Email of the person providing the reference.
avatar:
type: string
description: URL of image of the person providing the reference.
url:
type: string
description: URL of a social profile such as LinkedIn that would allow a viewer to learn more about the referee.
position:
type: number
description: The numeric position of the evidence item on the credential. 0 is displayed first in the list.
required:
- description
- relationship
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X POST \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/credentials/12345/references\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"reference\": {\n \"description\": \"John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts\",\n \"referee\": {\n \"name\": \"Jane Doe\",\n \"email\": \"person@example.com\"\n },\n \"relationship\": \"managed\"\n }\n}'"
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Create a New Reference
/v1/credentials/{credential_id}/references/{reference_id}:
get:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: number
description:
type: string
referee:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
email:
type: string
avatar:
type: string
supplemental:
type: boolean
relationship:
type: string
example:
reference:
id: 1234
description: John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts
referee:
name: Jane Doe
email: jdoe@example.com
avatar: https://www.example.com/avatars/janedoe.png
supplemental: false
relationship: managed
summary: View a Reference
operationId: ViewAReference
tags:
- References
parameters:
- name: credential_id
in: path
description: ID of the Credential in the form of a string or integer for the particular Credential requested.
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: reference_id
in: path
description: ID of the Reference in the form of an integer.
required: true
schema:
type: number
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X GET \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/credentials/12345/references/1234\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\""
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: View a Reference
put:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: number
description:
type: string
referee:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
email:
type: string
avatar:
type: string
supplemental:
type: boolean
relationship:
type: string
example:
reference:
id: 1234
description: John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts
referee:
name: Jane Doe
email: jdoe@example.com
avatar: https://www.example.com/avatars/janedoe.png
supplemental: false
relationship: managed
summary: Update a Reference
operationId: UpdateAReference
tags:
- References
parameters:
- name: credential_id
in: path
description: ID of the Credential in the form of a string or integer for the particular Credential requested.
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: reference_id
in: path
description: ID of the Reference in the form of an integer.
required: true
schema:
type: number
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
example:
reference:
description: my new reference text
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
description:
type: string
description: The reference comments / text.
relationship:
type: string
enum:
- taught
- managed
- mentored
- worked
- studied
- friends
- stranger
- professor
description: 'Must be one of: "taught", "managed", "mentored", "worked", "studied", "friends", "stranger", "professor".'
position:
type: number
description: The numeric position of the evidence item on the credential. 0 is displayed first in the list.
required:
- description
- relationship
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X PUT \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/credentials/12345/references/1234\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"reference\": {\n \"description\": \"my new reference text\"\n }\n}'"
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Update a Reference
delete:
responses:
'200':
description: OK
headers: {}
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
reference:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: number
description:
type: string
referee:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
email:
type: string
avatar:
type: string
supplemental:
type: boolean
relationship:
type: string
example:
reference:
id: 1234
description: John worked hard on this course and provided exemplary understanding of the core concepts
referee:
name: Jane Doe
email: jdoe@example.com
avatar: https://www.example.com/avatars/janedoe.png
supplemental: false
relationship: managed
summary: Delete a Reference
operationId: DeleteAReference
tags:
- References
parameters:
- name: credential_id
in: path
description: ID of the Credential in the form of a string or integer for the particular Credential requested.
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: reference_id
in: path
description: ID of the Reference in the form of an integer.
required: true
schema:
type: number
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
label: cURL
source: "curl -X DELETE \\\n \"https://api.accredible.com/v1/credentials/12345/references/1234\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Token token=YOUR_API_KEY\""
x-operation-id-source: normalized
x-operation-id-original: Delete a Reference
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)