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Overview

Handshakes Web API enables the development of applications that can interact with Handshakes’ capabilities, facilitating tasks such as:

  • Retrieving official and up-to-date corporate and individual data for Customer Due Diligence, Lead Generation and Competitor Research

  • Visualising direct and indirect connections within your vendor portfolio for Risk Management

Data can be provided in different structures (reports and maps) and formats (JSON, XML, PDF).

Getting Started​

Take these steps to start creating your application leveraging Handshakes API capabilities.

Handshakes API Integration Life Cycle

  1. Understand and Identify the relevant APIs by browsing through our How-to and API catalogue

  2. Sign up for an account

  3. Develop your application

  4. Integrate and test against our Staging environment

  5. Deploy into Production and start delivering new insights to your users

Documentation​

This documentation is organised as follows:

  • Getting started: contains basic information such as signing up for an account, authentication and authorisation, and other basic information to kick-start the development journey
  • How-to: a step-by-step guide to help you easily identify the relevant Handshakes APIs according to your needs
  • API Reference: our complete API catalogue categorised by different capabilities

Support​

If you have questions or run into any issues while using the Handshakes API, connect with us at [email protected].

By using Handshakes API, you accept the Handshakes Terms of Use.