POST login/users/reset password/email

Description

Sends a reset password email for a user given its username or e-mail.

The reset password email has a default template that allows to configure some properties, such as the sender email, the logo url, a message and the url the user will be redirected to inform the new password.

The redirect_url is the only required parameter (along with email or username) and is used to redirect the user to your site in order to provide reliability to the user inform his new password. You should create the redirect url page with password and confirm password fields, validate the password and confirm password according to your restrictions and call our API to reset the password given the reset password token sent to the redirect url in the query parameter called "token".

The reset password email supports two languages: English (en) and Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br). You can set the language using the HTTP header "Accept-Language".

Resource URL

  POST https://api.socialidnow.com/v1/marketing/login/users/reset_password_email

Parameters

JSON Parameters

username 1	optional	username.
email_address 1	optional	user e-mail.
redirect_url	required	the url to redirect the user to inform the new password
from	optional	the sender email
logo_url	optional	the logo url to display in the email template
description	optional	an introductory message to the user

¹ At least one of these fields must be given to identify the user.

Authentication

This API requires Social Login App authentication. See Authentication.

Response

Response Status

created (201)	The email was sent successfully.
unprocessable_entity (422)	Some required parameter was not informed.
unauthorized (401)	The authentication is wrong. See Authentication.
internal_server_error (500)	An unknown error happened.

Examples

Using username and English language

Request

curl -iX POST 'https://api.socialidnow.com/v1/marketing/login/users/reset_password_email' \
-d '{
      "username": "new_user",
      "redirect_url":"http://www.example.com",
      "from":"contact@example.com",
      "logo_url":"http://www.example.com/logo.png",
      "description":"We received a request to reset your password for Example.com account."
     }' \
-H 'Content-type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept-language: en' \
--user 138:e8b9ca24f1b590af67e6271297d6e1f7226625d61c5b5daa1b2f215464e292cf

Response

Response Headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Status: 201

Using email_address and Brazilian Portuguese language

Request

curl -iX POST 'https://api.socialidnow.com/v1/marketing/login/users/reset_password_email' \
-d '{
      "email_address": "new_user@user_domain.com",
      "redirect_url":"http://www.example.com",
      "from":"contact@example.com",
      "logo_url":"http://www.example.com/logo.png",
      "description":"We received a request to reset your password for Example.com account."
     }' \
-H 'Content-type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept-language: pt-br' \
--user 138:e8b9ca24f1b590af67e6271297d6e1f7226625d61c5b5daa1b2f215464e292cf

Response

Response Headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Status: 201