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Handshakes API

Commercial

by Handshakes (DC Frontiers)

Singapore corporate-intelligence API exposing official registry data (including ACRA-sourced Singapore company information) as entity searches, registry/financial/litigation reports and relationship graphs. Used for KYC/KYB customer due diligence, lead generation and vendor risk mapping, with output in JSON, XML or PDF.

How to authenticate

  1. 1Sign up for a Handshakes account (see the 'Sign up for account' page on the developer portal).
  2. 2Request an access token using your Handshakes account username and password (e.g. via Postman).
  3. 3You receive a JSON response with access_token (JWT), token_type 'bearer' and expires_in.
  4. 4Send 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' on all subsequent API requests (search, reports, graphs, balance).
  5. 5Tokens expire after 1 hour; request a new token when expired. Use the Check Balance endpoint to monitor your credit balance.

Example response

Response (truncated)
{"access_token":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi...","token_type":"bearer","expires_in":259199}

Notes for AI agents

Account provisioning is sales-assisted and usage is credit-metered (there is a dedicated check-balance endpoint); report generation debits credits per call. Docs live at developer.handshakes.ai (developer.handshakes.com.sg redirects there). Staging environment is provided for integration testing before production.

Machine-readable version: /api/apis/handshakes

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