Send a discovery OTP to an email address. The OTP is valid for 10 minutes. Only the most recently sent OTP is valid: when an OTP is sent, all OTPs previously sent to the same email address are invalidated, even if unused or unexpired.
Send Discovery Email OTP
POST
https://test.stytch.com/v1/b2b/otps/email/discovery/sendBody parameters
email_address* string
The email address to start the discovery flow for.
login_template_id string
Use a custom template for login emails. By default, it will use your default email template. The template must be a template using our built-in customizations or a custom HTML email for OTP - Login.
locale string
Used to determine which language to use when sending the user this delivery method. Parameter is a IETF BCP 47 language tag, e.g. "en".
Currently supported languages are English ("en"), Spanish ("es"), French ("fr") and Brazilian Portuguese ("pt-br"); if no value is provided, the copy defaults to English.
Request support for additional languages here!
discovery_expiration_minutes int
The expiration time, in minutes, for a discovery OTP email. If not accepted within this time frame, the OTP will need to be resent. Defaults to 10 with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 15.
Response fields
request_id string
Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.
status_code int
The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.
const stytch = require('stytch');
const client = new stytch.B2BClient({
project_id: 'PROJECT_ID',
secret: 'SECRET',
});
const params = {
email_address: "sandbox@stytch.com",
};
client.otps.email.discovery.send(params)
.then(resp => { console.log(resp) })
.catch(err => { console.log(err) });RESPONSE 200
200
{
"request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
"status_code": 200
}RESPONSE 401
200
{
"status_code": 401,
"request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
"error_type": "unauthorized_credentials",
"error_message": "Unauthorized credentials.",
"error_url": "https://stytch.com/docs/api/errors/401"
}RESPONSE 429
200
{
"status_code": 429,
"request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
"error_type": "too_many_requests",
"error_message": "Too many requests have been made.",
"error_url": "https://stytch.com/docs/api/errors/429"
}RESPONSE 500
200
{
"status_code": 500,
"request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
"error_type": "internal_server_error",
"error_message": "Oops, something seems to have gone wrong, please reach out to support@stytch.com to let us know what went wrong.",
"error_url": "https://stytch.com/docs/api/errors/500"
}