--- title: requestAuthPasswordRecovery description: Requests to send password recovery code to email. Works only when authGetState returns authStateWaitPassword. Returns authStateWaitPassword on success --- ## Method: requestAuthPasswordRecovery [Back to methods index](index.md) YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO Requests to send password recovery code to email. Works only when authGetState returns authStateWaitPassword. Returns authStateWaitPassword on success ### Params: | Name | Type | Required | Description | |----------|:-------------:|:--------:|------------:| ### Return type: [AuthState](../types/AuthState.md) ### Example: ``` $MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API(); if (isset($token)) { // Login as a bot $MadelineProto->bot_login($token); } if (isset($number)) { // Login as a user $sentCode = $MadelineProto->phone_login($number); echo 'Enter the code you received: '; $code = ''; for ($x = 0; $x < $sentCode['type']['length']; $x++) { $code .= fgetc(STDIN); } $MadelineProto->complete_phone_login($code); } $AuthState = $MadelineProto->requestAuthPasswordRecovery(); ``` Or, if you're using [PWRTelegram](https://pwrtelegram.xyz): ### As a bot: POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/botTOKEN/madeline` Parameters: * method - requestAuthPasswordRecovery * params - {} ### As a user: POST/GET to `https://api.pwrtelegram.xyz/userTOKEN/requestAuthPasswordRecovery` Parameters: ``` ``` Or, if you're into Lua: ``` AuthState = requestAuthPasswordRecovery({}) ```