openapi: 3.0.1
info:
title: IDnow Gateway Authentication VideoIdent 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
security:
- LoginToken: []
tags:
- name: VideoIdent
paths:
/{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.
components:
securitySchemes:
LoginToken:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-LOGIN-TOKEN
description: JWT returned by the login endpoint, sent on every authenticated request.