🇨🇷Costa Rica

Service to query Costa Rican citizens using the National Identity Document.

Costa Rican Citizen Information

GET - https://api.verifik.co/v2/cr/cedula

This service allows you to verify the authenticity of a Costa Rican National ID card (Cédula) by providing the document number. The response includes the cardholder's full name, along with their first and last names separately.

This service is useful for confirming the validity of a Costa Rican National ID for various purposes, such as identity verification and background checks.

To use this service in a graphical interface, we invite you to access our client panel at Verifik.

Implementation

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Body

Name	Type	¿Required?	Description	Example
documentType	String	True	Document type. Allowed parameter: CCCR.	CCCR
documentNumber	String	True	Document number of the person to consult without spaces.	123456789

Request

JavaScript

import axios from 'axios';

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: '<https://api.verifik.co/v2/cr/cedula>',
  params: {documentType: 'CCCR', documentNumber: '123456789'},
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    Authorization: 'jwt <tu_token>'
  }
};

try {
 notFou const { data } = await axios.request(options);
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.verifik.co")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v2/cr/cedula?documentType=CCCR&documentNumber=123456789", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Swift

var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://api.verifik.co/v2/cr/cedula?documentType=CCCR&documentNumber=123456789")!,timeoutInterval: Double.infinity)
request.httpMethod = "GET"

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in 
  guard let data = data else {
    print(String(describing: error))
    return
  }
  print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}

task.resume()

PHP

<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('https://api.verifik.co/v2/cr/cedula?documentType=CCCR&documentNumber=123456789');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setConfig(array(
  'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
try {
  $response = $request->send();
  if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
    echo $response->getBody();
  }
  else {
    echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
    $response->getReasonPhrase();
  }
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
  echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

Response

200

{
  "data": {
    "documentType": "CCCR",
    "documentNumber": "123456789",
    "fullName": "MATEO VERIFIK",
    "firstName": "MATEO",
    "lastName": "VERIFIK",
    "arrayName": [
      "MATEO",
      "VERIFIK"
    ]
  },
  "signature": {
    "dateTime": "April 11, 2023 12:25 PM",
    "message": "Certified by Verifik.co"
  }
}

404

{
    "code": "NotFound",
    "message": "Record not found.",
    "signature": {
        "dateTime": "August 31, 2022 3:24 PM",
        "message": "Certified by Verifik.co"
    }
}

409

{
    "code": "MissingParameter",
    "message": "missing documentType\n. missing documentNumber\n"
}

409

{
    "code": "MissingParameter",
    "message": "documentType must be one of: [CCCR]"
}