openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: IDnow Gateway Authentication VideoIdent API
  description: Specification of the IDnow identity-verification gateway API. Companies authenticate against the gateway, create and drive identification orders (AutoIdent automated and VideoIdent human-assisted), retrieve results and captured documents, and subscribe to status-change webhooks. Endpoints and payloads documented here are derived from IDnow's public developer documentation; consult the IDnow Developer Hub for the authoritative, complete reference and request/response schemas.
  termsOfService: https://www.idnow.io/terms-conditions/
  contact:
    name: IDnow Support
    url: https://www.idnow.io/developers/
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://gateway.idnow.de/api/v1
  description: Production gateway
- url: https://gateway.test.idnow.de/api/v1
  description: Test gateway
security:
- LoginToken: []
tags:
- name: VideoIdent
paths:
  /{company}/identifications/{transactionId}/requestVideoChat:
    post:
      operationId: requestVideoChat
      tags:
      - VideoIdent
      summary: Request the video-chat step for an identification.
      description: Places the identification into the VideoIdent queue so an IDnow Ident Specialist can guide the user through video verification.
      parameters:
      - name: company
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: transactionId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Video chat requested.
components:
  securitySchemes:
    LoginToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-LOGIN-TOKEN
      description: JWT returned by the login endpoint, sent on every authenticated request.