Captcha plugin overview
The Captcha Plugin integrates bot protection into Better Auth by adding captcha verification for key endpoints. It ensures that only human users can perform actions like signing up, signing in, or resetting passwords.
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The Captcha Plugin integrates bot protection into Better Auth by adding captcha verification for key endpoints. It ensures that only human users can perform actions like signing up, signing in, or resetting passwords.
The Captcha plugin supports four providers: Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, and CaptchaFox.
To install the Captcha plugin, import it from 'better-auth/plugins' and add it to the plugins array in the betterAuth config with the provider and secretKey options specified.
The captcha token should be added to request headers for all protected endpoints using the 'x-captcha-response' header. This is done through fetchOptions.headers in the client request.
The Captcha plugin acts as middleware that intercepts POST requests to configured endpoints, validates the captcha token on the server by calling the captcha provider's /siteverify endpoint, and either returns an error if validation fails or returns undefined to allow the request to proceed.
Plugin options for Captcha: provider (required, string) - the captcha provider; secretKey (required, string) - the provider's secret key for server-side validation; endpoints (optional, array) - replaces the default array of paths where captcha verification is enforced, default is ["/sign-up/email", "/sign-in/email", "/request-password-reset"]; minScore (optional, number, Google ReCAPTCHA v3 only) - minimum score threshold, default 0.5; siteKey (optional, string, hCaptcha and CaptchaFox only) - prevents tokens issued on one sitekey from being redeemed elsewhere; siteVerifyURLOverride (optional, string) - overrides endpoint URL for the captcha verification request.
By default, the Captcha plugin protects three endpoints: /sign-up/email, /sign-in/email, and /request-password-reset. Custom endpoints can be specified in the plugin options to override these defaults.
Paths in the endpoints option match exactly unless they include wildcards. Single segment wildcards use /path/*, and nested route wildcards use /path/**.
The Captcha plugin works out of the box with Email & Password authentication. To use it with other authentication methods, configure the endpoints array in the plugin options.
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