Education Verification API

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Automate employee education background check with easy to integrate API

Introduction

Education verification API is one among the suite of background check APIs offered by the Attestr Platform. This is an asynchronous API which accepts the certificate details as input. Once requested, the documents are verified by our back office team in co-ordination with the concerned board / institute / university and the result is made available through API and webhooks offering an end to end automation.

The legacy data processing model is being formally deprecated.

In order to ensure continued compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), we are implementing DPDP V3 (Consent-Driven Processing). Under this framework, clients are required to obtain explicit, informed, and verifiable consent from the data principal prior to accessing, processing, viewing, or storing any personal data through the platform. This regulatory transition may require modifications to existing configurations and workflows. Clients are advised to review and update their implementations to ensure ongoing compliance with applicable data protection obligations. Further information regarding this transition can be enquired here. Learn more about this change here.

API Details

Request

Type	URL
POST	https://api.attestr.com/api/`{version}`/public/factx/async/education

Request Header Parameters

Type	Name	Value / Description	Optional	Min Version	Max Version
String	Content-Type	application/json	Required	v1
String	Authorization	Basic `{authToken}`	Required	v1

Info

If you do not have the authentication token, please refer to Register App to generate one.

Request Body Parameters

Type	Name	Description	Optional (default)	Min Version
String	tag	Unique employee Id / reference id to be passed by the client	Required	v1
String	level	One of the following values representing the level of education - SSC, HSC, GRADUATE, POST_GRADUATE, DOCTORATE, OTHER, HIGHEST	Required	v1
String	course	Name of the degree	Required	v1
String	courseName	Specialization	Required	v1
String	reg	Registration / Roll no	Required	v1
Number	startMonth	Any number from 1 (Jan) to 12 (Dec)	Required	v1
Number	startYear	4 digit year number greater than 1900	Required	v1
Boolean	ended	Boolean representing whether course has been completed or still in progress	Required	v1
Number	endedMonth	Any number from 1 (Jan) to 12 (Dec). Required if ended is set as true, else set as null.	Conditional	v1
Number	endedYear	4 digit year number greater than 1900. Required if ended is set as true, else set as null.	Conditional	v1
String[]	documents	Array of supporting document Ids. This includes mark sheets, certificates and other related documents. To generate document Ids, first upload each document using Document Upload	Required	v1
Boolean	webhook	Boolean flag to be used for triggering webhooks once record is updated. More details below.	Optional	v1

Sample Request

{ "tag": "ABCD1234", "level": "GRADUATE", "course": "B.Tech", "courseName": "Electronics And Communication", "reg": "03401243543", "startMonth": 1, "startYear": 2012, "ended": true, "endedMonth": 3, "endedYear": 2016, "documents": ['MX0HDRT3435HF', 'MX0HDHGY6475HF'] }

Response Details

Http Status 200

Key	Description	Type	Min Version	Max Version
_id	Unique request Id to be used later for querying the result	String	v1
number	Unique human readable number to be used for any reference later	String	v1

{ "_id": "AR02zfeuv2iz5ksij09nf", "number": "3801-575765-9695" }

Querying Education Check Result

Get Education Async Request Outcome API

Type	URL	Min Version	Max Version
GET	https://api.attestr.com/api/{version}/public/async/<asyncId>	v1

Request Header Parameters

Type	Name	Value / Description	Optional	Min Version	Max Version
String	Content-Type	application/json	Required	v1
String	Authorization	Basic `{authToken}`	Required	v1

Request URL Parameters

Name	Description	Min Version	Max Version
asyncId	Replace <asyncId> in the URL with the _id received in the education verification API response as described above.	v1

Response

Http Status 200

Key	Description	Type	Min Version
_id	Request Id as queried in the URL	String	v1
number	Request number	String	v1
requestId	Unique ID used by Attestr for request tracing purposes	String	v1
status	Status of the request. Possible values are - COMPLETED, INITIATED, ERRORED	String	v1
input	The input details used for verification	String	v1
output	Education check output object. Details described as below. Null if status is errored or initiated.	EducationCheckOutputRecord	v1
error	Error object if the operation ran into errors, null otherwise. Null if status is completed or initiated.	String	v1
created	Unix timestamp when the request was placed.	Number	v1
updated	Unix timestamp when the request was last updated. Null if status is initiated.	Number	v1
signature	Signature generated using the output and client secret. Used for validating the accuracy of data. Null if status is errored or initiated.	String	v1

Education Check Output Record

Key	Description	Type	Min Version
status	One of Clear, Alert, False, MoreInfo, NoResult	String	v1
mode	Mode of verification e.g Online, Offline, Physical, Email, Telephone etc	String	v1
verified	Date on which verified data was received from the institution. For online verification, it is the date on which verification was performed. DD-MM-YYYY	Date	v1
verifier	Name of the verifying institution / board / university	String	v1
authority	Name of the individual or department that verified the document	String	v1
description	Description text provided by Attestr back office for each verification. This text is particularly useful for alert and false cases. HTML formatted string.	String	v1
documents	List of supporting verified letter, documents as received from the institute	Array[String]	v1
voiceRecords	In case the verification has been performed by an official over the phone, it contains an array of voice recording media Ids. In most cases, this will be null.	Array[String]	v1

Sample Output

{ "status": "Clear", "documents": [ "MX1xRollD8Szmm4iI7" ], "voiceRecords": null, "description": "We have verified the details on the Board of secondary education Andhra Pradesh website, details are found to be correct. The roll number and marks obtained are matching the provided documents. The digital document as downloaded from the site and a screenshot has been attached as an evidence.", "verifier": "Board of Secondary Education Andhra Pradesh", "authority": "Mr. S. N. Reddy, Registrar", "verified": "09-02-2022", "mode": "Online" }

Error Response

Parameter	Type	Description
code	Number	Unique error codes for different errors. Always available.
message	String	Error message describing the error. Always Available.
details	String	Detail error message. Available only for certain types of errors.

Error Codes

HTTP Status	Error Code	Error Message
400	4001	Malformed data or missing required parameter values
400	4005	Operation could not be performed due to low credits balance
401	4016	Invalid client authorization
403	4031	Unauthorized access
403	4035	Requested service is not provisioned for your account
403	4039	Client's IP address is not whitelisted
403	4035	Requested service is not provisioned for your account
429	4291	Maximum account rate limit exceeded
429	4292	Maximum API rate limit exceeded
429	4293	Maximum account daily limit exceeded
429	4294	Maximum API daily limit exceeded
500	5001	Request could not be processed

Sample Error Response

{ "code": 4001, "message": "Malformed data or missing required parameter values" }

Webhooks

Education check supports the following two webhook events.

See Webhooks for more details on how to register webhooks.

async.completed
async.errored

To enable webhooks, the API input parameter webhook must be set as true while initiating the request.

Webhook Event Payload

Key	Type	Description	Min Version
_id	String	ID of the async request. This is same as received in the output of Person / Business search API as described above.	v1
requestId	String	Unique request ID for internal tracing purposes.	v1
status	String	One of INITIATED, COMPLETED OR ERRORED	v1
output	Object	Education Check output record same as output key described in Querying Result API above.
error	Object	Error object if the check runs into errors. The structure of this is same as the Error Response object described above.	v1
signature	String	generated using hmacHexDigest of output object and client secret. Null if archived.

Sample Webhook Payload

{ "event": "async.completed", "payload": { "_id": "AR0Z__sb-A9dvapX01", "requestId": "780602a8-a0eb-4d3d-a1db-e66883bafd37", "status": "COMPLETED", "output": { "status": "Clear", "documents": [ "MX1XazEe-0KHLZcLsh", "MX1Nr7vBssr6IOkc65" ], "voiceRecords": null, "description": "We have validated the details on the Maharashtra state board website and found the provided document to be genuine. All the details including passing year, roll number, total marks and grade have been found to be matching with those available on the portal. The screenshot of the report is attached as an evidence", "verifier": "Maharashtra state board", "authority": "https://boardmarksheet.maharashtra.gov.in/emarksheet/SSCINPUT.jsp", "verified": "16-08-2022", "mode": "Online" }, "error": null, "signature": "430cc40662bd35d1872e301a6682aa30aff09cdb204c1004af229100a5312add" } }

Last updated on Feb 3, 2026