aid: google-recaptcha
name: Google reCAPTCHA
description: Google reCAPTCHA is a security service that protects websites and applications from spam and abuse by verifying that interactions are from real humans rather than bots, offering Enterprise and standard APIs for site verification and risk assessment.
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-recaptcha/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
  - Abuse Prevention
  - Bot Detection
  - CAPTCHA
  - Fraud Prevention
  - Google Cloud
  - Security
apis:
  - name: reCAPTCHA Enterprise API
    description: >-
      The reCAPTCHA Enterprise API provides advanced bot detection and fraud
      prevention capabilities for websites and applications. It returns risk
      scores and reason codes for user interactions, supports creating and
      managing site keys, assessments, and related resources. The API enables
      creating assessments for tokens, annotating assessments with feedback,
      and managing firewall policies for automated protection.
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    humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs
    baseURL: https://recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com
    tags:
      - Bot Detection
      - Enterprise
      - Risk Assessment
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/reference/rest
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/recaptcha-enterprise-openapi.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/google-recaptcha-assessment-schema.json
  - name: reCAPTCHA Site Verify API
    description: >-
      The reCAPTCHA Site Verify API is the standard verification endpoint for
      reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 tokens. After a user completes a reCAPTCHA challenge
      on the frontend, the backend sends the response token to this API to
      verify the interaction. The API returns whether the verification succeeded,
      a score (for v3), the action name, and the hostname.
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    humanURL: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/verify
    baseURL: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api
    tags:
      - reCAPTCHA V3
      - Token Validation
      - Verification
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/verify
common:
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/getting-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/pricing
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/authentication
  - type: Console
    url: https://console.cloud.google.com/security/recaptcha
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/libraries
  - type: Support
    url: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/support
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.cloud.google.com
  - type: JSON-LD
    url: json-ld/google-recaptcha-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com