IDnow Identifications API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: IDnow Gateway API
  description: >-
    Specification of the IDnow identity-verification gateway API. Companies
    authenticate against the gateway, create and drive identification orders
    (AutoIdent automated and VideoIdent human-assisted), retrieve results and
    captured documents, and subscribe to status-change webhooks. Endpoints and
    payloads documented here are derived from IDnow's public developer
    documentation; consult the IDnow Developer Hub for the authoritative,
    complete reference and request/response schemas.
  termsOfService: https://www.idnow.io/terms-conditions/
  contact:
    name: IDnow Support
    url: https://www.idnow.io/developers/
  version: '1.0'
servers:
  - url: https://gateway.idnow.de/api/v1
    description: Production gateway
  - url: https://gateway.test.idnow.de/api/v1
    description: Test gateway
paths:
  /{company}/login:
    post:
      operationId: login
      tags:
        - Authentication
      summary: Authenticate a company and obtain a login token.
      description: >-
        Authenticates a company using its API key and returns a JSON Web Token
        (authToken) that must be sent as the X-API-LOGIN-TOKEN header on
        subsequent requests.
      parameters:
        - name: company
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The company identifier issued by IDnow.
          schema:
            type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                apiKey:
                  type: string
                  description: The company API key.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Authentication succeeded; returns the login token.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  authToken:
                    type: string
                    description: JWT to be used as the X-API-LOGIN-TOKEN header.
  /{company}/identifications/{transactionId}/create:
    post:
      operationId: createIdentification
      tags:
        - Identifications
      summary: Create an identification for a transaction.
      description: >-
        Creates an identification resource for the given transaction within the
        company. Used for both AutoIdent and VideoIdent flows depending on the
        configured product.
      parameters:
        - name: company
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: transactionId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: Caller-supplied unique transaction reference.
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Identification created.
  /{company}/identifications/{transactionId}/start:
    post:
      operationId: startIdentification
      tags:
        - Identifications
      summary: Start a previously created identification.
      parameters:
        - name: company
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: transactionId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Identification started.
  /{company}/identifications/{transactionId}/requestVideoChat:
    post:
      operationId: requestVideoChat
      tags:
        - VideoIdent
      summary: Request the video-chat step for an identification.
      description: >-
        Places the identification into the VideoIdent queue so an IDnow Ident
        Specialist can guide the user through video verification.
      parameters:
        - name: company
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: transactionId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Video chat requested.
  /{company}/identifications/{transactionId}:
    get:
      operationId: getIdentification
      tags:
        - Results
      summary: Retrieve the result of an identification.
      description: >-
        Returns the current state and result data for an identification as
        JSON. Once the identification has finished, the captured ID-document
        and face images can be requested via the include flag.
      parameters:
        - name: company
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: transactionId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: include_documents
          in: query
          required: false
          description: When true, includes captured document and face images.
          schema:
            type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Identification result.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    LoginToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-LOGIN-TOKEN
      description: >-
        JWT returned by the login endpoint, sent on every authenticated
        request.
security:
  - LoginToken: []