Web Proof for Public Data

In this short interactive guide, you’ll learn how to construct the artifacts required for generating Web Proofs in under 5 minutes.

This guide focuses on generating a Web Proof using public data - information that’s freely accessible to anyone interacting with a server. Public data includes data from a public API or an open database. This differs from authenticated data, which requires user login credentials and can only be accessed by verified users of a specific service.

In the example below, we generate a Web Proof over public data served by TheMealDB, an open-source database and free API with recipes from around the world. You’ll learn how to construct a manifest file, which is required for generating a Web Proof.