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title: Google reCAPTCHA
description: Google reCAPTCHA helps prevent bots from registering users or resetting passwords on your system. For Google documentation on this feature, see Google reCAPTCHA. IDM works with Google reCAPTCHA v2.
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version: 7.2
page_id: pingidm:self-service-reference:recaptcha
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingidm/7.5/self-service-reference/recaptcha.html
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docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md
superseded_by: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingidm/7.5/self-service-reference/recaptcha.html
---

# Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA helps prevent bots from registering users or resetting passwords on your system. For Google documentation on this feature, see [Google reCAPTCHA](https://www.google.com/recaptcha). IDM works with Google reCAPTCHA v2.

To use Google reCAPTCHA, you will need a Google account and your domain name (RFC 2606-compliant URLs such as `localhost` and `example.com` are acceptable for test purposes). Google then provides a site key and a secret key that you can include in the self-service function configuration.

For example, you can set up reCAPTCHA by adding the following code block to the configuration file for user self-registration `selfservice-registration.json`, password reset, `selfservice-reset.json`, and forgotten username `selfservice-username.json` functionality.

```json
{
    "name" : "captcha",
    "recaptchaSiteKey" : "< Insert Site Key Here >",
    "recaptchaSecretKey" : "< Insert Secret Key Here >",
    "recaptchaUri" : "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify"
},
```

You may also add the reCAPTCHA keys through the UI for each of these self-service features.