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Web NFC API

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The Web NFC API allows exchanging data over NFC via light-weight NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) messages.

[!NOTE] Devices and tags have to be formatted and recorded specifically to support NDEF record format to be used with Web NFC. Low-level operations are currently not supported by the API, however there is a public discussion about API that would add such functionality.

Interfaces

  • {{DOMxRef("NDEFMessage")}}
    • : Interface that represents NDEF messages that can be received from or sent to a compatible tag via a NDEFReader object. A message is composed of metadata and NDEF Records.
  • {{DOMxRef("NDEFReader")}} {{Experimental_Inline}}
    • : Interface that enables reading and writing messages from compatible NFC tags. The messages are represented as NDEFMessage objects.
  • {{DOMxRef("NDEFRecord")}}
    • : Interface that represents NDEF records that can be included in an NDEF message.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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