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Richard Clarke

Provide an API supporting Certificate Verification and Search

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Artisan Hub has provided a service to the Salesforce community for several years by aggregating current Salesforce Certificate data and producing ranking reports and statistics.

Salesforce has recently changed the interactive web pages available to check certificate currency at https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/verification so they are protected by a reCatpcha control and the underlying REST API has been changed to prevent it being used other than by this page.

In this idea I am asking Salesforce to expose an API to Artisan Hub which allows for programatic search for certified professionals by name and email, as well as checking certificate currency based on the persons ID. Salesforce may wish to control who has access to this API so this API need not be public, but I am asking for an API which Artisan Hub can utilise.

Until Artisan Hub can access this API the Artisan Hub service will have to remain turned off.

If you are a Certified Salesforce Professional and believe when you check the "Verifcation Opt-in" option in WebAssessor that your certificate status should be accessible for programmatic verification checking, then please vote for this idea.

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Richard

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Abhishek Ghosh - 7 months ago

Hey Richard!
I have been trying to get the rank but the app seems to be not updating the results. Is the service down for few days?
please confirm.
Cheers!
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Marcelo Marsson Goncalves da Costa - 8 months ago

Hey Richard!
How did you guys got to get the service back?
Did you get an API that returns the certifications based on the email or it was more of a "crawling" solution?
Im really interested in knowing how you did it!
Cheers

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Pedro Prada - 9 months ago

Hey Richard,
I wonder how these guys are able to pull this: https://trailhead-leaderboard-developer-edition.na96.force.com/

or here: https://toptrailblazers.com/

I guess is from a different database (trailhead as opposed to Webassessor) as people have to sign up?

Thanks,

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Richard Clarke - 9 months ago

Hi Pedro, glad to hear you are enjoying the Artisan Hub ranking statistics. We would love to include Trailhead progress within the ranking formula but this is not possible until Salesforce provide an API which exposes the Trailhead data together with the certification/accredition data via an API. This data is visible in the Trailhead profile if the user has opted in to have a public profile, but it is not accessible in the verification site. Maybe one day that API will be made available. Richard

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Pedro Prada - 9 months ago

Richard,

In the future I also think you could assign points for Superbadges or for achieving certain ranks like Ranger, 2X Ranger, 4X Ranger, etc.

I think this would also be a great idea if you can implement one day.... This is to motivate people to also continue learning. I think that they also bring great value to your skillset (not just certificates). I know that there is access to this information.

Maybe 1 point per superbadge or 2-4 points for every 100 badges (just suggestions) or look at every 50,000 points equals X in your score...

Thanks

PEDRO

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Pedro Prada - 9 months ago

happy to hear is back!
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Raja Kumar Pallepati - 9 months ago

Thank you Richard and team!
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Deborah Orth - 9 months ago

Thank you Richard and Artisan Hub for getting this back up and running again!
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Avinash Vatsya - 9 months ago

Thanks Richard for creating the app.
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Carlos Alonso Rodriguez - 9 months ago

This is superb @Richard.

Thanks so much for the update.
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Richard Clarke - 10 months ago

I am pleased to announce Artisan Hub is operational again - bigger and better!

Today Artisan Hub is tracking the progress of 76,436 Salesforce Certified Professionals who have in total 251,100 current Salesforce Certificates and reside in 113 different countries.

The ranking formula is much the same as before but with one change. Points stop accruing on a daily basis two years after the last certificate date. This is intended to motivate people to keep learning and passing exams. If you want to keep your total points score incrementing you must pass at least one exam every two years.

You can get your ranking report by sending an email to rank.me@artisanhub.com.au with the subject containing the email address you can be found with in the Salesforce Certificate Verification web page.

There is one person in the world being tracked who has 31 certificates! Congratulations to Chyan Yee Goh for being #1 in the world in Artisan.

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Kid Jansen - 10 months ago

Any news Richard Clarke?
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Jose Costa - 11 months ago

Awesome! I was trying to debug the show more button today. I let you know if I find something.
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Richard Clarke - 11 months ago

We are working on bringing Artisan Hub back to life, maybe some time next month
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Jose Costa - 11 months ago

Trailblazer profile added the list of certifications of a person public availible. Maybe now is it possible to work on it again?
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