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Digital Footprint Check API

Score an applicant's digital presence from their mobile and email — account age signals, presence on payment and social platforms, and consistency across them — to separate thin-file genuine users from synthetic identities.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 2 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/digital-footprint-check
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Mobile number*
    • Email address
    • Name
  2. Profiden API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Footprint score
    • Platforms with presence
    • Consistency flags
    • Risk band
digital-footprint-check Full reference

What the Digital Footprint Check API does

Send a mobile number and email. The API returns a footprint score, the platforms where the identifiers are registered and consistency flags, without returning any content from those platforms.

Benefits of the Digital Footprint Check API

How established is this person online? Signals from phone, email and app presence.

Thin-file inclusion

Approve genuine first-time borrowers a bureau cannot see.

Synthetic identity signal

Freshly created identifiers with no history stand out.

Use cases

Digital Footprint Check API use cases

Where the Digital Footprint Check API is typically called, and what it settles there.

New-to-credit underwriting

Alternate data alongside the bureau.

Application fraud screening

Catch bulk-created identities.

How the Digital Footprint Check API works

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console at console.profiden.com.

01

Authenticate

Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

02

Send the inputs

Mobile number as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

03

We verify at source

Profiden queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

04

Act on the result

A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Built for the DPDP Act 2023

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

Encryption in transit and at rest
Data processed in India
Per-request audit trail
Masked identifiers in responses

Digital Footprint Check API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Digital Footprint Check API to their integration.

No. Only presence and consistency signals are returned; no posts, contacts or messages.

Related APIs

APIs that usually run alongside the Digital Footprint Check API, on the same key.

All APIs

Get access to the Digital Footprint Check API

Tell us your use case and expected volume. We set up the organisation, share per-call pricing and issue keys.