SmartSelfie™ Authentication

Required Class: WebApi Class

Running SmartSelfie™ Authentication on Java

  1. Get your Smile ID Partner ID

  2. Get your API Key

  3. Create a Callback Endpoint

  4. Get your user's Selfie

  5. Get the user ID you initially used to register the user

  6. Submit the Job to Smile ID

  7. Interpret your results

Get your Partner ID

You can find your Partner ID in the menu list when logged into the portal.

Get your API Key

Your API Key is also in the developer section of the portal.

  • Click on the Generate New API Key button

  • Copy your api key (ensure you are in the right environment)

Generate a new API Key
Copy your API Key

Create a Callback Endpoint

Responses from this product are asynchronous (based on various actions we carry out on the product) and are sent as soon as they are ready, you will need to setup a callback when submitting a job. You can read about creating a Callback URL here.

Get the User's Selfie

To successfully run SmartSelfie™ Authentication jobs you need to submit the user's selfie. There are two types of selfies that can be submitted

  • Selfie - a single colour-image selfie of user

  • (optional but required for Proof of Live) Liveness images - 8 colour images of user

  • ID card photo

The selfies images can either be submitted as files (with the path to the image specified during submission) or as base64 encoded strings.

We recommend that you use our Web SDK to capture these images.

Get the User's User ID

Since SmartSelfie™ Authentication entails comparing a user's selfie with the selfie they have on file in Smile ID, you must supply the User's existing user_id in the partner params (the user_id must be the same as the one you used when you ran a successful "Biometric KYC™" or "Document Verification" for the user). If the User ID you supplied does not exist, the job will fail.

Submit the Job to Smile ID

Interpret your Results

You can read more about result codes and responses in the SmartSelfie™ Authentication section of the docs.

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