README.md

WebOTP

This repository documents an API for accessing one time passwords to verify credentials (e.g. phone numbers).

• The explainer is a developer-oriented preview of the API.
• The specification draft is aimed at browser developers.

The API has a test suite in the Web Platform Test project.

• Example usage: https://web.dev/web-otp/
• Cross-browser OTP form best practices: https://web.dev/sms-otp-form/

Resources

This API is inspired by and loosely based on the following discussions:

• SMS Verification on Android
• The one-time-code autocomplete API

The WebOTP API has also been discussed in the following places:

• Discourse thread
• Blink intent-to-implement
• Blink intent-to-experiment
• TAG Review
• Origin Trials