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Acuant Chip Data API

Submit and retrieve contactless chip data

Acuant Chip Data API is one of 13 APIs that Acuant publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Chip Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: https://us.acas.acuant.net, https://eu.acas.acuant.net, https://aus.acas.acuant.net, https://preview.acas.acuant.net.

2 operations 1 paths 4 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://services.assureid.net
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Acuant Chip Data API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (BasicAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (BearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • BasicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication. Credentials encoded as Base64("username:password") in the Authorization header.
  • BearerAuth — JWT bearer token obtained from the /api/v1/token endpoint.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Chip Data 2

Submit and retrieve contactless chip data

POST
/DocumentChipData
Submit contactless chip data
uploadDocumentChipData body → 200401500
GET
/DocumentChipData
Retrieve chip authentication results
getDocumentChipData → 200401

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DocumentField (3 properties), Error (2 properties), ChipDataResult (2 properties), ChipDataRequest (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ChipDataResult
object
2 properties
ChipDataRequest
object
1 property
Error
object
2 properties
DocumentField
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

acuant-chip-data-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Acuant publishes across the network.

Acuant AssureID Connect API
Acuant FRM Face Recognition API
Acuant Passive Liveness API
Acuant ACAS (Cloud Authentication Service) API
Acuant Ozone API
Acuant Authentication API
Acuant Document Data API
Acuant Document Instances API
Acuant Face Match API
Acuant Images API
Acuant Liveness API
Acuant Metadata API