# Digital Credentials API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/w3c/digital-credentials/  
**Provider:** W3C — https://apis.io/providers/w3c/  
**Documentation:** https://www.w3.org/TR/digital-credentials/

Digital Credentials API is one of 15 APIs that [W3C](https://apis.io/providers/w3c/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Credentials, Identity, Privacy, Security, and Standards.

The W3C Digital Credentials API provides browser support for mediating presentation and issuance of digital credentials such as digital identity documents. It enables web applications to request and receive verifiable digital identity credentials from digital wallets in a privacy-preserving way.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Specification** — https://www.w3.org/TR/digital-credentials/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/w3c/digital-credentials

## Other W3C APIs (12)

- [W3C API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-api/)
- [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wcag/)
- [HTML Living Standard](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/html/)
- [CSS Specifications](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/css/)
- [JSON-LD](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/json-ld/)
- [Verifiable Credentials](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/verifiable-credentials/)
- [WebAssembly](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wasm/)
- [WAI-ARIA](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/aria/)
- [RDF and SPARQL](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/rdf/)
- [W3C Affiliations API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-affiliations-api/)
- [W3C Ecosystems API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-ecosystems-api/)
- [W3C Groups API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-groups-api/)

## Tags

Credentials, Identity, Privacy, Security, Standards

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/digital-credentials/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/w3c/.