Start an authentication attempt

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "email": "owner@example.com",
  "keyName": "laptop-cli",
  "codeChallenge": "E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts"

payload = {
    "email": "owner@example.com",
    "keyName": "laptop-cli",
    "codeChallenge": "E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM"
}
headers = {
    "Idempotency-Key": "<idempotency-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Idempotency-Key': '<idempotency-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    email: 'owner@example.com',
    keyName: 'laptop-cli',
    codeChallenge: 'E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM'
  })
};

fetch('https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'email' => 'owner@example.com',
    'keyName' => 'laptop-cli',
    'codeChallenge' => 'E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key: <idempotency-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"email\": \"owner@example.com\",\n  \"keyName\": \"laptop-cli\",\n  \"codeChallenge\": \"E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts")
  .header("Idempotency-Key", "<idempotency-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"email\": \"owner@example.com\",\n  \"keyName\": \"laptop-cli\",\n  \"codeChallenge\": \"E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.runpod.io/v2/signup/authentication-attempts")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Idempotency-Key"] = '<idempotency-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"email\": \"owner@example.com\",\n  \"keyName\": \"laptop-cli\",\n  \"codeChallenge\": \"E9Melhoa2OwvFrEMTJguCHaoeK1t8URWbuGJSstw-cM\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "attemptId": "att_3kq9x81mzp",
  "expiresAt": "2026-10-16T18:10:00Z",
  "resendAfter": "2026-10-16T18:00:30Z"
}

{
  "title": "Not Found",
  "status": 404,
  "detail": "pod not found",
  "errors": [
    "$: additional properties 'bogus' not allowed"
  ]
}

{
  "title": "Not Found",
  "status": 404,
  "detail": "pod not found",
  "errors": [
    "$: additional properties 'bogus' not allowed"
  ]
}

{
  "title": "Unprocessable Entity",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "Request validation failed."
}

{
  "title": "Too Many Requests",
  "status": 429,
  "detail": "rate limit exceeded for the minute window"
}

{
  "title": "Not Found",
  "status": 404,
  "detail": "pod not found",
  "errors": [
    "$: additional properties 'bogus' not allowed"
  ]
}