Get recovery codes

Wraps Stytch's Recovery Codes endpoint. Call this method to retrieve the recovery codes for a TOTP instance tied to a user.

You can listen for successful user updates anywhere in the codebase with the stytch.user.onChange() method or useStytchUser() hook if you are using React.

Note: If a user has enrolled another MFA method, this method will require MFA. See the Multi-factor authentication section for more details.

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.

user_id string

The unique ID of the affected User.

totps array[objects]

An array containing a list of all TOTP instances for a given User in the Stytch API.

totp_id string

The unique ID for a TOTP instance.

verified boolean

The verified boolean denotes whether or not this send method, e.g. phone number, email address, etc., has been successfully authenticated by the User.

import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react';

export const Login = () => {
  const stytch = useStytch();

  const trigger = useCallback(() => {
    stytch.totps.recoveryCodes();
  }, [stytch]);

  return <button onClick={trigger}>Get Recovery Codes</button>;
};
RESPONSE 200
{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "user_id": "user-test-16d9ba61-97a1-4ba4-9720-b03761dc50c6",
  "totps": [
    {
      "totp_id": "totp-test-41920359-8bbb-4fe8-8fa3-aaa83f35f02c",
      "verified": true,
      "recovery_codes": [
        "ckss-2skx-ebow",
        "spbc-424h-usy0",
        "hi08-n5tk-lns5",
        "1n6i-l5na-8axe",
        "aduj-eufq-w6yy",
        "i4l3-dxyt-urmx",
        "ayyi-utb0-gj0s",
        "lz0m-02bi-psbx",
        "l2qm-zrk1-8ujs",
        "c2qd-k7m4-ifmc"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
RESPONSE 400
{
  "status_code": 400,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "error_type": "invalid_public_key_credential",
  "error_message": "Invalid public key credential. Please confirm you're passing a correctly formatted public key credential.",
  "error_url": "https://stytch.com/docs/api/errors/400"
}
RESPONSE 404
{
  "status_code": 404,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "error_type": "user_not_found",
  "error_message": "User could not be found.",
  "error_url": "https://stytch.com/docs/api/errors/404"
}
RESPONSE 429
{
  "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
{
  "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"
}