PSA Public API

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Overview

All PSA Public API requests must be made over HTTPS, and can accessed from https://api.psacard.com/publicapi/. View a list of available methods and test results.

There is a daily limit of 100 API calls for free accounts. If you would like to learn more about the paid plans we offer at higher daily limits, please contact us via email: [email protected].

Review the PSA API End User Agreement

Authentication

We use your PSA login credentials to generate an access token that can be then used to make calls to our REST API.

To get an access token you will need to sign in or register.

To use the token, you need to add an "Authorization" header with the value of "bearer <access token>" to your call replacing "<access token>" with your generated token. For example, here's sample code to call a method requesting Cert data by PSA Cert number:

var settings = {
    "async": true,
    "crossDomain": true,
    "url": "https://api.psacard.com/publicapi/cert/GetByCertNumber/00000000",
    "method": "GET",
    "headers": {
          "authorization": "bearer <access token>"
    }
}
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
    console.log(response);
});
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,"https://api.psacard.com/publicapi/cert/GetByCertNumber/00000000");
$authorization = "Authorization: bearer <access token>";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json' , $authorization ));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close ($curl);

API Methods

Available Methods
We currently offer access to data from Cert Verification for single item searches by cert number.

Method Details & Testing

Error Codes

We use conventional HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of API requests.

Usually, a response code of 500 will indicate invalid credentials, though it may also indicate an error on our servers.

A 4xx response typical indicates the request path is incorrect or invalid.

A response code of 204 indicates empty request data (ie. missing cert number).

A successful API call will return a 200 response code, but that does not mean data was returned.

  • If the request values were not in the expected format (such as a cert number containing non-numeric or too few characters), the response body will contain something similar to { "IsValidRequest": false, "ServerMessage": "Invalid CertNo" }.
  • If no data is found, but the request values were formatted correctly, the response body will contain { "IsValidRequest": true, "ServerMessage": "No data found" }.
  • If a cert lookup is successful, look for "IsValidRequest": true, "ServerMessage": "Request successful" amongst the rest of the data in the response body.