---
title: "Forgot Password"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/auth/forgot-password"
tags: ["Auth"]
---

# Forgot Password

`POST /api/v1/auth/forgot-password`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.africadb.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.africadb.com/api/v1/auth/forgot-password`
- Auth: none declared

Issue a one-time password-reset token and email the link.

Always returns 200 with a generic message — we never confirm or deny
that the email is registered (anti-enumeration).

## Request body

- ForgotPasswordRequest
  - `email` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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