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SAID with photo

Request

Confirm a person’s identity in South Africa from their 13-digit South African ID number (SAID) and put a face to the record. Alongside the core identity details – first name, last name, date of birth, gender, citizenship status, and deceased status – this service also returns the individual's official photograph, making it well suited to flows where visual confirmation matters

Security
API-Key
Bodyapplication/json
said_numberstring, = 13 charactersrequired

South African 13-digit national identity number in the format YYMMDDSSSSCAZ: YYMMDD is the date of birth, SSSS is a gender code (0000-4999 female, 5000-9999 male), C is the citizenship indicator (0 citizen, 1 permanent resident), A is a historical digit, and Z is a Luhn checksum digit.

Example:"8001015009031"
{
  "said_number": "8001015009031"
}

Responses

OK

The request was successful, and our system returned an expected response.

Bodyapplication/json
dataobject
Response
{
  "data": {
    "first_name": "Josh",
    "last_name": "Coffey",
    "dob": "1976-02-21",
    "gender": "M",
    "is_citizen": true,
    "is_deceased": false,
    "photo_base64": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/4gHYSUNDX1BST0ZJTEUAAQEAAAHIAAAAAAQwA[...]"
  }
}