Password Generator API

The Password Generator API auto-generates random passwords that are hard incredbily to guess.

/v1/passwordgenerator

HTTP GET

Returns a random password string adhering to the specified parameters.

Parameters

length (optional) - length of password in characters. If not set, a default value of 16 is used.

exclude_numbers (optional) - whether to exclude numbers from the password. Must be either true or false. If not set, a default value of false will be used.

exclude_special_chars (optional) - whether to exclude special characters(!@#$%^&*()) from the password. Must be either true or false. If not set, a default value of false will be used.

Headers

X-Api-Key (required) - API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request URL

Live Demo!

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length=

Sample Response

{
  "random_password": "nYs43u5f1oGK9*g5"
}

import requests

length = '16'
api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length={}'.format(length)
response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'})
if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    print(response.text)
else:
    print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)
var length = '16'
$.ajax({
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length=' + length,
    headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
    contentType: 'application/json',
    success: function(result) {
        console.log(result);
    },
    error: function ajaxError(jqXHR) {
        console.error('Error: ', jqXHR.responseText);
    }
});
const request = require('request');
var length = '16';
request.get({
  url: 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length=' + length,
  headers: {
    'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
}, function(error, response, body) {
  if(error) return console.error('Request failed:', error);
  else if(response.statusCode != 200) return console.error('Error:', response.statusCode, body.toString('utf8'));
  else console.log(body)
});
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

URL url = new URL("https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length=16");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("accept", "application/json");
InputStream responseStream = connection.getInputStream();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(responseStream);
System.out.println(root.path("fact").asText());
let length = "16".addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlQueryAllowed)
let url = URL(string: "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/passwordgenerator?length="+length!)!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.setValue("YOUR_API_KEY", forHTTPHeaderField: "X-Api-Key")
let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) {(data, response, error) in
    guard let data = data else { return }
    print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}
task.resume()
If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.