Summary of Profile API methods

The Profile API is a REST-style API that returns JSON-encoded arrays of results and/or attributes.

The base URL for all API operations is http://www.identity.net/profile/api/idn.php.

The Identity.net API currently supports 6 methods:

The get_attributes and set_attributes methods require a POST operation since the attribute data may exceed the maximum URL length. All other operations are GET operations.

Example API call

 
http://www.identity.net/profile/api/idn.php?api_key=YOURKEYHERE&method=username_available&username=atest

Sample result

 
 {"username":"atest"}