Central Board of Secondary Education API

Overview

CBSE (http://www.cbse.nic.in/) is issuing marksheets, passing certificates, migration certificates etc. through DigiLocker. These are either pushed, or can be pulled by students into their DigiLocker accounts. Currently available - 2004 - 2020 [Class XII], 2004 - 2020 [Class X], 2017 (NEET Rank Letter & Marksheet), 2016 (NEET Rank Letter), 2018 December (CTET Eligibility Certificate & Marksheet).

Central Board of Secondary Education is an open data API from apisetu.gov.in. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 16 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

API key

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Open Data

Base URL

https://apisetu.gov.in/cbse/v3

Version

3.0.0

Endpoints

16

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2021-02-07

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X POST "https://apisetu.gov.in/cbse/v3/hpcer/certificate" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://apisetu.gov.in/cbse/v3/hpcer/certificate", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://apisetu.gov.in/cbse/v3/hpcer/certificate",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions