documentation/content/en/entities/IdentityProof.md

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title: IdentityProof description: Represents a proof from an external identity provider. menu: docs:

parent: entities

aliases: [ "/entities/identityproof", "/entities/IdentityProof", "/api/entities/identityproof", "/api/entities/IdentityProof",

]

{{< hint style="danger" >}} Identity proofs have been deprecated in 3.5.0 and newer. Previously, the only proof provider was Keybase, but development on Keybase has stalled entirely since it was acquired by Zoom. {{< /hint >}}

{
  "provider": "Keybase",
  "provider_username": "gargron",
  "updated_at": "2019-07-21T20:14:39.596Z",
  "proof_url": "https://keybase.io/gargron/sigchain#5cfc20c7018f2beefb42a68836da59a792e55daa4d118498c9b1898de7e845690f",
  "profile_url": "https://keybase.io/gargron"
}

Attributes

provider {#provider}

Description: The name of the identity provider.\ Type: String\ Version history:\ 2.8.0 - added

provider_username {#provider_username}

Description: The account owner's username on the identity provider's service.\ Type: String\ Version history:\ 2.8.0 - added

updated_at {#updated_at}

Description: When the identity proof was last updated.\ Type: String (ISO 8601 Datetime)\ Version history:\ 2.8.0 - added

proof_url {#proof_url}

Description: A link to a statement of identity proof, hosted by the identity provider.\ Type: String (URL)\ Version history:\ 2.8.0 - added

profile_url {#profile_url}

Description: The account owner's profile URL on the identity provider.\ Type: String (URL)\ Version history:\ 2.8.0 - added

See also

{{< page-relref ref="methods/accounts#identity_proofs" caption="GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/identity_proofs" >}}

{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/17045" caption="Remove Keybase integration (#17045)" >}}