Overview
The developer hub lets you use the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s APIs for accessing data.
Access is made using tokens, which you use when calling any of the APIs. You can access your tokens once you have subscribed to a product.
APIs are accessed over HTTPS and can return either JSON or XML data.
Getting started
To access the service, you need to:
- register for an account, activate it by email and sign in
- view which products are available and their associated APIs
- subscribe to a product to use its related APIs
We restrict access to some products by specific user groups (for example, training providers) which need approval from us to activate. We will contact you to confirm details before product activation.
You can view your product subscription keys, usage analytics and change your portal account details on your profile page.
Using APIs
You can test APIs from within the developer API pages to:
- check the returned data
- make sure you understand the required request values
To call the APIs from your own code you will need to:
- make an HTTP request
- include a custom request header named Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key
- use your product subscription key as the value for custom request header
The service will return a 401 response with a message giving the reason for the failed request if either:
- the header is missing
- the subscription key given is invalid