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POST
/
challenge
/
email-otp
Start Email OTP Challenge
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "userAuthenticatorId": "<string>"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp"

payload = { "userAuthenticatorId": "<string>" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({userAuthenticatorId: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'userAuthenticatorId' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"userAuthenticatorId\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"userAuthenticatorId\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.authsignal.com/v1/client/challenge/email-otp")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"userAuthenticatorId\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "challengeId": "<string>"
}
{
  "error": "<string>",
  "errorDescription": "<string>"
}
{
  "error": "<string>",
  "errorDescription": "<string>",
  "errorCode": "<string>"
}
{
  "error": "<string>",
  "errorDescription": "<string>"
}
{
  "error": "too_many_requests",
  "errorDescription": "The rate limit has been exceeded."
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Use a short-lived token obtained from the Server API's Track Action endpoint. The token is valid for 10 minutes and should be passed in the Authorization header as 'Bearer {token}'.

Body

application/json
​
userAuthenticatorId
string

The ID of the email OTP authenticator to use. Only required if the user has multiple email authenticators and you want to target a specific one.

Response

OK

​
challengeId
string